On Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 4:36:47 PM UTC-5 Brent wrote:
> > > On 6/26/2021 9:15 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 7:43 AM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> While the anthropic principle might be used to explain why the laws >> have been stable in the past (because this stability is probably necessary >> for the evolution of living or conscious organisms such as humans), it >> doesn't seem to explain why we should expect that the laws will continue to >> be stable in the future.* > > > But the world is not stable. > > > But presumably the *laws *are stable. Why? Because that's the way we > want them. If they weren't stable (or even time invariant) we wouldn't > call them laws of physics. They'd be initial conditions or historical > accidents. > > Brent > > The instability of the deSitter vacuum means gauge theories are not stable, and in fact are just local gauge redundancies that are not global in space or time. LC > > The universe looked very different 13 billion years ago than it does now > because space is not only expanding, it's accelerating; and Black Holes > evaporate eventually, they are not stable, and there are theoretical > reasons to suspect protons are not stable either, although that has never > been experimentally verified. > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > aoz > > > > >> -- > 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/CAJPayv0w6O1yLY_P6CTDY39_RSriot59-qShPSaNJSEyusjrKg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0w6O1yLY_P6CTDY39_RSriot59-qShPSaNJSEyusjrKg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- 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/29d69d32-a10d-4c8a-8023-f61a4191cda8n%40googlegroups.com.
