Re: [lojban] More damn imaginary world stuff

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, michael helsem wrote:

> >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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