Re: Does energy obey the laws of materialism ?

2013-01-20 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Roger, I would say the opposite - energy not being conserved would pose a harder challenge to materialism, because then you'd have to ask where it comes from and where it goes. On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Does energy obey the laws of

Re: Re: Does energy obey the laws of materialism ?

2013-01-20 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Telmo Menezes Good point. The answer is the same source that the universe came from. - Receiving the following content - From: Telmo Menezes Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-20, 10:37:56 Subject: Re: Does energy obey the laws of materialism ? Hi Roger, I would say

Re: Does energy obey the laws of materialism ?

2013-01-20 Thread meekerdb
Energy is conserved because we want our theories to be time translation invariant (c.f. Noether's theorem). Brent On 1/20/2013 7:37 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Roger, I would say the opposite - energy not being conserved would pose a harder challenge to materialism, because then you'd have

Re: Does energy obey the laws of materialism ?

2013-01-20 Thread Spudboy100
Is it fair, to call energy, matter in motion? Is it matter with momentum? Since Photons are massless and so are neutrinos, are they just types of energy, or primal energy, or proto-matter (wanna-be?). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything