On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:10 PM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 5:35:32 AM UTC+2 Bruce wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > Why should you think that a broken symmetry needs something to break it? > Spontaneously broken symmetries are a very special class of physical theories. Spontaneous symmetry breaking does not apply to all symmetries - particularly not the space-time symmetries. Sometimes there is a cause that breaks it and sometimes it breaks without a > cause. Reality as a whole doesn't need a cause to have symmetries or > asymmetries; they exist because they are logically possible. > Maybe they are just brute facts. Not all possible symmetries occur in nature. 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/CAFxXSLTAcGcgzLTbYndar5UKbY59McGKY1h4GMnv4G9gq_HLjw%40mail.gmail.com.
