(January 6, 2023 at 5:18 am)GrandizerII Wrote:(January 5, 2023 at 10:32 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I can only speak for myself; at the heart of my reality are the conservation laws; when those go, by my own reasonable lights & judgment, I am done with physicialism, scientism and atheism. Anything beyond that, in my opinion, would constitue religion.
This will be my last post for this thread; I really have nothing more to say on this subject. Besides, the House GOP thread is way too much fun!!
Fair enough, though would've liked to know when do you determine when conservation laws are no longer the case. I probably need to read back a bit to see what else you were saying.
One of the other difficulties is that under quantum theory many of the conservation laws are NOT absolute. The uncertainty principles allow for some limited 'flexibility'. For example, energy conservation can be violated for short periods of time. Momentum conservation can be violated if position is narrowed down sufficiently. And, in fact, one of the properties of 'virtual' particles is precisely that they are 'off-shell' and hence violate some of the conservation laws.
