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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Solon who wrote (51001)6/14/2002 3:45:10 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Reading the Poe page you linked to, I came across this wonderful anecdote, which I hadn't heard before:

"We may also remember Laplace's remark that Newton was not only the smartest man who ever
lived, he was also the luckiest, because there is, and will always be, only one universe, and it has
only one system of laws, and Newton was the one human being privileged to discover those
laws. What does that leave for the rest of us?"

Of course, we now know that there is more than one universe.

Now we have to wonder whether there is only one system of laws, or whether different universes have different systems of laws.
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