Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests

[Questioner]

"don't worry about the creation of a galaxy. If you can't even understand what's going on now around you, you have no place trying to think about creating a galaxy."

That makes sense to me.

From the article:

seems to vary continuously along a preferred axis

I wonder, if this is accurate, does it mean that there is a universal Up and Down that applies everywhere? Is that a consequence of "a preferred axis?" That consciousness from anywhere in the universe could refer to "towards the higher-alpha state" as a consistent shared direction?