WHY PHYSICAL LAWS CANNOT BE FUNDAMENTAL ENFORCERS

This paper examines whether physical laws can exist as fundamental enforcers when all components of physics—the observer, the environment, and the act of observation—are stripped to pure quantum mechanics. Using a strict logical-necessity framework, it shows that quantum systems permit transitions by default and that persistent regularities arise only when interactions suppress those transitions through coupling, back-reaction, and dissipation. What are called “physical laws” therefore cannot act as causes or governing agents; they are descriptive invariants that summarize the repeated outcomes of identical enforcement mechanisms operating across systems. No new physics is introduced—only the physical basis of law is clarified.