Why must you think only in their terms of physical laws?
All physical laws he knew were stood on their head.
This is the physical law from which all others flow.
For example, consider several experiments designed to test a particular physical law.
Most, however, are impossible with current technology and physical laws.
Gravity was a fact, a simple physical law, a force of nature.
"The idea is, how do physical laws act themselves out?"
I think this is more a question of perspective rather than an actual physical law.
The question is, can we survive under different physical laws?
Thus, information has not been lost, only changed; which is fine by all physical laws.
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