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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: uniformitarianism doesn't rule out catastrophes
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:48:03 GMT
- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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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
- momentum
- >uniformity over time is equivalent to conservation of ...? [..]
- energy
-
- and uniformity over spacial directions is equivalent to the conservation of
- angular momentum.
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- What E. von Daeniken, I. Velikovsky and several others could have said but to
- my knowledge didn't:
- "I don't know much about science, but I know what I like!"
-