The universe is designed to be taken for granted

Last time we tested light, it behaved in the same way.
Last time we tested gravity, the apple still fell.
Maybe next time will be different,
but I doubt it.
The universe is designed so as to be taken for granted.

If it could not be taken for granted in this way,
every thing would be
so much harder
or that is to say: softer.

Nothing would be predictable.
Some things might get easier, just by luck.
Like if gravity had momentary lapses
at times of plane crashes.

But you'd have to really schedule it precisely
or very locally for that to work,
because otherwise you would save a plane load of people
while the other 7 billion of us
drifted poetically off into space.

When you think about,
gravity has it's balancing aspects.

And I rather suspect that it will turn out to be
Convenient (I'm not saying it was designed, only Convenient)
that light behaves in these ways that physicists don't as yet
entirely understand
(and reliably so),
because
if it did not,

the consequences would not all be so good.