Then again the basic assumptions are really just best guess models to describe what we observe.
History is littered with the corpses of long dead assumptions that for centuries no one thought to question. Then one day someone did question each of them, and questioned them with just the right questions. The day those questions were asked, the world changed. We have laws of thermodynamics, which are part classical physics, that at present have stood the test of time. But I'm certain at some point in the future those laws will fall apart and some deeper truth will be revealed. Just as the laws that proceeded them failed at some point and the current set of laws will be revealed. Humanity does not have all the answers. But some where in time, humanity will have new questions. These new questions will demand new tests, the new tests will produce new answers, which themselves will produce new questions. This is how we have learned everything we know now, and will likely be how we will continue to learn for some time. Logic tells us that a single set of laws must govern everything. Yet even right now we have 3 seperate and distinct sets of laws to describe the natural world each of which operates in a specific domain. These laws are quite contrary to one another. Quantum, Classical, and Relativistic laws will all give different results for a given problem. So we choose whichever set of laws generally gives us the closest approximation to our observable and/or predicted results and say "these are laws that must govern this domain". None of them is perfect, therefore it stands to reason that at some time, each must fall to something new. Anyways thats just my 2c. On 9/26/07, Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Levi Pearson wrote: > > e.g. http://www.timecube.com/ > > Wow. I think I am actually dumber for merely opening that page. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
