Taken from the Internet Oracularities #1164-03
Selected-By: Ian Davis <Ian.Davis@ludwig.edu.au>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

Wise Oracle most picayunish and duplicitous,

Are the laws of -really- physics constant through out the universe?

Certainly. Unfortunately, there are very few parts of the universe that acually use -really- physics. The predominant form, -sorta- physics (in which twins fly off in rocket ships and butterflies cause hurricanes), is far from constant. It varies as a direct relation with time -- but in -sorta- physics, time varies with velocity, which varies with force, which varies with mass, which varies with gravity, which varies over time.

This is still preferable to -vaguely- physics (in which butterflies fly off in rocket ships and twins cause hurricanes). Its laws vary with the value of the dollar, which varies with the inverse cube of the mean amount of Brownian motion in each cup of tea being poured in Staffordshire-oEton, which in turn varies with itself.

And we should all be glad that there are only three planets in the known universe which experience -notreallyphysicsatall- physics (in which hurricanes fly off in twins and butterflies cause rocket ships). The laws of -noreallyphysicsatall- remain constant at all times. The problem is that the definition of 'constant' varies with respect to the digits of pi.

Now doesn't Einstein sound a lot more sane, all things considered?

You owe the Oracle a complete textbook on each flavor of physics described herein, with proper annotations.