On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote:
> MY wrote: > > > >I know of no properly demonstrated violation of Lenz law. Such a > violation would also violate COE and >Newton 3. That's rather unlikely, at > least on any macro scale for any appreciable time period -- or the > >universe would not be the way we see it. > > Are you trying to convince me or yourself that the set of axioms known > as the laws of physics apply to everything that has happened or will > ever happen? > I am trying to convince you that new discoveries rarely if ever change current physical laws for the regimes of size, velocity, etc. in which they have been developed. For example, Newton's Laws of motion are just as good as ever as long as you don't move very extremely fast in which case Einstein's discoveries and deductions begin to apply. Or if you get very very small, quantum physics laws become more accurate than Newton's. That's what I meant. COE is fundamental to the way the universe looks and works and I don't think it will ever be "overthrown". You may discover new sources of energy analogous to the discovery of radioactivity, and perhaps new possibilities for converting it but I don't think you will overthrow COE for the known universe.
