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I don't agree at all: being so quick to dismiss energy-momentum conservation is pretty much the same as anything goes. Noether's theorem runs really deep. For a
by conistonwater 10y ago
I don't agree at all: being so quick to dismiss energy-momentum conservation is pretty much the same as anything goes. Noether's theorem runs really deep. For an example of an existing (non-crankpot) effort, have a look at the attempts to find Lorentz violations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_searches_for_Lorentz_violation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_searches_for_Lorentz_vi... That's more like what it looks like when people try to do it seriously.
- dleslie 10y agoI don't think this will result in dismissing of conservation of momentum. But because many thought it did, it's been an incredible uphill battle to get this thing tested; yet throughout tests it shows strange outcomes. Something odd is going on, and perhaps the simple outcome is that we find a better way to perform the tests. To me, that's a fantastic outcome and I'm dismayed it's taking such a _political_ fight to arrive at it.
- conistonwater 10y agoYou're wrong if you think this is "political", as you put it.