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This is a battle I get into over and over in my life. The universe obeys certain laws of interaction between particles and that's the end of it. Nothing that we think should happen matters. As David Hume pointed out, you can't get an 'ought' from an 'is'. Water is a great example of this, not only for the ice not sinking, but also because of its unreasonably high surface tension and boiling point. None of these qualities are predictable; we can only see them empirically. Life itself doesn't really make sense, but why should it? Logic is a construct of language, not of the universe itself. When we ascribe our version of 'logic' to science we get awesome things like eugenics.Nothing requires the universe to make logical sense.