Re: [lojban] More damn imaginary world stuff

["michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>]

> From: Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>
     li'o
> > <It is entirely possible that ANY deviation from our known laws of 
> physics
> > involves a logical contradiction.>
> > No.  It may be that any deviation from the actual laws of physics (known 
> and
> > unknown) is physically impoossible -- that no world could actually exist 
> in
> > any other way -- but that is far from LOGICAL impossibility, that the 
> laws
> > imply, in themselves, a contradiction.
> >
>
> Are you saying that it is impossible that the laws of physics are arranged
> such that any other arrangement requires a logical contradiction? Can you
> show me an alternate arrangement that is logically consistent? Since we
> don't have our complete picture yet, we are not yet sure if any other
> alternate arrangements are logically possible.

IIRC, there was somebody who reformulated the existing "physical
laws" according to INFORMATION rather than energy, in the 70's (i
blush to admit i read this in Analog); being tautological & a pain
in the gizzard to think in terms of, it never caught on: but this shows that 
another Physics than the one we know, is indeed possible in this same 
universe...
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