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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (70866)7/22/2003 9:26:10 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
the laws of physics don't change
?????????????????

But the laws of physics DO change.

1. Inflation? That involves moving mass faster than the speed of light. Something had to have changed.

2. Maybe you mean the laws of physics as written in textbooks? Those clearly change. Classical physics does not allow transistors to work. Or lasers. But they do.

Apparently you refer to th REAL laws of physics, the ones we will know once we know EVERYTHING. If that is possible; quantum mechanics casts doubt on that.

But then you are simply an modern Platonist. You believe this world is really just the shadows cast by the real, ideal world.

But the existence of that world is simply an assumption on your part. Like the existence of "absolute moral principles".
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