Grimer wrote: > At 03:09 pm 08/04/2006 -0500, you wrote: >> >> >> The conservation momentum is ideal as a perpetual erection. >> >> Science has gone a long way to conserve momentum...can science keep it up? >> ...should science keep it? >> >> Harry > > > Conservation Laws arise from the way things are defined. > > They are prescriptive not descriptive. > > Like accountant's books, the numbers always balance because > they are made to balance. > > Ultimately, conservation laws must be reducible to a tautology. > > Frank >
Yes... so the theoretical physicist should be more concerned with descriptions of matter rather than with prescriptions for matter. Since some descriptions are incompatible with some prescriptions, the primary focus of the experimental physicist should be testing alternate descriptions of matter rather than testing the 'truth' of a particular prescription. Harry
