These kinds of questions are interesting, because we’ve gone so deep into the natural sciences that we’ve looped back around into philosophy. Why are electrons negative? Because it is. Why is the speed of light 3×10^8 m/s? Because it is! You can either accept this as God, or random chance, or even the anthropic principle, which states that these specific properties are necessary for the creation of life, and thus are the only set of properties capable of being observed. Physics and chemistry actually made me religious, of all things.
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