Question: I have a question about natural law. Do you think that natural physical laws are constant? Or, maybe they're not constant, that they will vary in time?

LaRouche: Well, I think what we do is this: My view is, always use this conception of a Riemannian manifold. What we know, is, we know a principle like gravitation, which we know imperfectly. So, let's say the universe consists of possibly a number of universal physical principles: We'll call it an arbitrary number M. Whatever the number is, M. Mankind, so far, has discovered a much smaller number of principles; let's call this N. Aggressive scientific discovery keeps opening up new discoveries of new principles. So therefore, we have to look at the universe, from this standpoint: That we know N principles, as actual physical principles, but do we know their M total out there?

Now, the most important principles are another sub-set of those of N principles--the ones that we can use to change the behavior of the universe. For example, the principle of gravitation is an example of a principle that we can not, somehow, control; the idea of quickest action is a principle we can not control; Leibniz's idea of the infinitesimal, or the universal principle of physical least action, which is another principle which we know, and can prove, but we can not control it. But, then, there are other principles that we can control, as in principles of chemical processes, for example; and physical chemical is a beautiful area from which to start, to look at that.

So, what we need, as always, is we need a conception of real processes--that is, beyond sense-perception--of an expanding number of principles, which are interacting. Give an example of this, which I use a number of times: As Riemann suggests, that by changing the number of principles, which we're using, to control the universe, we change the universe. For example, this shows up in the third section of his 1854 habilitation dissertation.

For example, when we use scientific principles, to increase the power, and to speed up transportation on the planet, we increase the quickness of the action of man in changing the universe around us. So, the general effect that we observe in the universe, is that, when we add new principles to our repertoire of action, we speed the universe up. Then, the result is, is that the observable principle of quickest time, is speeding up!

Now, we observe, even in non-human processes, in all kinds of universal processes, the universe itself evolving. The development of a sun, a solar system, with 92 known elements, from a simple, fast-rotating sun, is an example of a physical change in the organization of the universe. So, what we do, as a matter of practice, we put limits upon our asserted assumptions about the universe, and we reduce the thing to a practical form of statement, about the way we know we can act, in the universe. We can adduce certain principles, as Riemann did, about the general nature of a self-expanded manifold.

But, we try not to make any arbitrary assumptions about the universe. That, instead, we use our understanding of this difficulty, as a kind of epistemological erkenntnisferagische [ph] principle, which governs us, and keeps us sane. It's a matter of erkenntnisferig [ph]; and we must always be sane, in our way of thinking about ourselves, in our own mind. So, the question is all these areas, which are fun to think about, but we always have to keep our sanity, in the process.

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