On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 7:01 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
*> > What is your assumption that the conservation of angular momentum will >> continue to hold throughout the night based on?* > > > > Largely on symmetry. But the only way you know something is symmetrical is by making measurements, but it's impossible to make a measurement in every direction because there are a infinite number of them, so you make only a few measurements and then you must use induction, the idea that things usually continue, to fill in the blanks and thus make an inductive conclusion from just a finite number of measurements. Induction will not always give you the correct answer, if you wait long enough it will almost always fail, but in the meantime it will give you a long string of correct answers and so is an extremely useful rule of thumb, in fact I'd say inductive reasoning is even more important than deductive reasoning. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> dfp -- 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/CAJPayv0Ut1Y%2BD%3DCc_iCxvM_FBy%3DNCTZRdv-EsC1T5GrT4kF1_Q%40mail.gmail.com.
