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What tablet did god write this law on?
by StanislavPetrov 10y ago
What tablet did god write this law on?
- maverick_iceman 10y agoThat is a pretty moronic comment. Go sit in a Physics 101 classroom.
- StanislavPetrov 10y agoThanks for proving my point.
- zeroer 10y agoWell, you're right that it's not a mathematical certainty that momentum is always conserved. But there's such a mountain of evidence for it that we should have a very high bar for claims that it's violated. Thermal effects and measurement error are both likely sources of the discrepancy. But another reason to be skeptical is that Noether's Theorem tells us that a violation of conservation of momentum is only possible if the laws of physics are not translation invariant, and we should be able to use the violation of conservation of momentum to illustrate a specific instance where physical laws are not translation invariant. That would be Earth-shattering. (But not, strictly speaking, impossible)
- out_of_protocol 10y ago... or the law was bypassed, somehow. Also huge news if confirmed
- thescribe 10y agoIt seems to be that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- Oletros 10y agoIn a tablet way more powerful than the weak evidence that this drive shows