On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 10:35 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:11 AM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:01:14 AM UTC+2 Bruce wrote: >> >>> One can have confidence in the continuation of angular momentum >>> conservation because there is nothing in prospect that will spoil this >>> symmetry -- the rotational invariance of space. >> >> >> And there is nothing in prospect to maintain the symmetry either. >> > > > Why should you think that symmetry requires maintenance? Unless you take a > medieval religious view and hold that God is necessary in order to hold the > universe in order -- to hold the heavens in place. I think Galileo and > Newton successfully dispelled such a notion. > "For each law-governed world, there are countless variants that would fail in different ways to be wholly law-governed." -- Derek Parfit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit> in “*Why Anything? Why This? <http://www.sfu.ca/~rpyke/cafe/parfit.pdf>*” > Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUid-iFmuPV6jWNEASU%2B4tjiO71DdcL24Jr5BHQxxoZXkQ%40mail.gmail.com.
