On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 2:34 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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>*” > What does Derek Parfit know about it? That is just his unevidenced opinion. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLSToee4%2Bs1or1vNQ4X%2BMp4JTuL%3DmAbC5tBN%2BZXAyG7v_Q%40mail.gmail.com.
