> What if the laws of physics are "parameterized" by stuff that includes location.
They are. One parameter, for instance, is the strength of the electromagnetic field at your location. Another is the sum force of gravity acting on you. Another parameter is your current acceleration.
The point being: that doesn't help you actually explain anything. Okay, great, that's why far off galaxies are moving too fast; they have different parameters that are making them do that. Can we actually figure out what that parameter is? Let's come up with a name for it so we can actually discuss the same thing. Let's call it, oh, I don't know, "dark energy".
Sure, the speed of light, or the permittivity of vacuum, could totally be different somewhere else. We have no evidence for that and it doesn't really help us explain anything, but if it did, then great: we figure out how that new parameter behaves and varies, which will inevitably involve something else that is constant, and then that constant becomes part of our new theory. And then someone on Hacker News comes along and says "why are we just assuming that that constant is the same everywhere? Maybe other corners of the universe have different physics! Checkmate physicists!"
It reminds me of the creationists who endlessly argue about "missing links" in evolution despite us filling in Earth's evolutionary history more and more every year. There's no insight here, you're just moving the goalposts around.
> We don't even have words for those meta-forces and meta-meta-forces, (maybe like, derivatives of derivatives).
It's called "jounce", actually. Or some people prefer "snap", followed by "crackle" and "pop", of course.
> What if aliens just found a way to "bring a bubble of their own physics" into our little corner? That's why it seems so inexplicable to us, because it's literally alien physics.
Hallucinogens may beget good music, but not very good physics.