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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
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- Subject: Re: uniformitarianism doesn't rule out catastrophes
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:20:43 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.125825.13667@news.nd.edu>, scharle@lukasiewicz.cc.nd.edu (scharle) writes:
- |>
- |> Isn't it true that certain laws of uniformitarianism, so to speak,
- |> are mathematically equivalent to corresponding conservation laws?
- |> For example, that the universe is the same over all locations in space
- |> (isotopy?) is equivalent to the conservation of energy, or that
- |> uniformity over time is equivalent to conservation of ...? Or are we
- |> talking about completely different things?
- |>
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- I am not entirely sure, since my training is not in physics,
- but I think you are right. Certainly there is a relationship between
- temporal uniformitarianism and spatial uniformitarianism (that is non-
- uniformity in one of space or time implies a non-uniformity in the other).
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- But I do seem to remember hearing something about the even stonger result
- you mentioned.
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