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First of all, you may say that, this is a "why" question and in physics we don't ask such a question and instead we ask about "how". However, I want to discuss this with you.

We model the behavior of matter by physical laws, for example by quantum mechanics laws. I want to know how the matter, say electron, knows that it must obey such a law. What forces the electron to obey quantum mechanics laws?

If you consider a simulation of the universe in a computer, in the view of someone simulated in that computer the physical laws are just there. They may not know what keeps in check the simulated matter to obey physical laws, but in our perspective those simulated physical laws are there because we implemented them as zero and ones in a hard disk. If we wanted, we could change those physical laws and in the eye of the simulated person everything would be still fine.

Is there a scientific attempt to discuss this issue? so that I can read about it.

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As several of the comments suggest I think you are misunderstanding the nature of a physical law is. Physical laws do not control how particles etc. behave but are just our best estimate of what is happening. The laws can change as we get more knowledge, the actual behavior doesn't.

For example when Einstein "discovered" relativity particles didn't stop following Newton's law and start following relativity.

As to why these laws and constants are what they are, the simple answer is - if they where different then the universe would not behave as it does. There is some discussion on this but I think it is mostly philosophical in nature.

More interesting is the question of whether these constants are necessarily constant across the universe/time. For example this.

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