The expression of necessity can only be the form of an arbitrary rule.
A one-way sign tells us in what direction we have to go. A mathematical rule tells us the results of the next number in the series.
There is no necessity in the world/ only in the grammar of our expressions.
Everything in the world can either be or not be. Everything is possible.
We observe and measure fragments of the world and we make generalizations. Yet there are no real causes observable in nature. The past is gone: it cannot act in the present. We generalize from correlations based on repeated observations. Yet in this process a mathematical structure is revealed. Mathematics is not the language of the universe/ mathematics is a language that we invented. However/ perhaps we can view the universe as an expression of mathematics?
If we are to regard the universe as the expression of a language/ then we are saying that the universe has a meaning. If the universe has a meaning--even only a mathematical meaning--then there would have to be a source of that meaning. Otherwise/ science is like attempting to crack a coded message/ only to find that it is not a code at all/ but random nonsense that the printer churned out.
But this is only a way of seeing the world/ not a scientific description.
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