(November 18, 2012 at 6:50 am)Daniel Wrote: Actually, all laws of physics break as soon as you move out of their field of reference.
Since all laws of physics govern the whole Universe - at least as far as we can tell (how's that for arrogance?) - you would have to step outside to be out of their frame of reference. Even then that's not a complete guarantee - we have no way of knowing what, if anything can even exist beyond the Universe or even if such a concept even makes sense. It may be that, like Truman Burbank's life in a dome, there may be another even larger one outside. Or nothing whatsoever. Whatever the case, the only way to entertain such notions as moving beyond physics is mathematically or philosophically; unless these approaches can map onto anything in the reality on the level at which we relate to the Universe, which by definition they can't, it's little more than masturbation. Entertaining, definitely, but hardly world-altering.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
