Re: virus: May 5, 2000

Corey Lindsly (corey@phix.com)
Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:14:06 -0700 (PDT)


> You're correct. The fact that it goes against the laws of physics means it
> isn't true.

i agree with each of your statements except for
this one. there are no "laws" of physics - only
habits. that is, we observe the behaviour of
various things in nature, and extrapolate "laws"
therefrom. the problem, of course, is that we can
never know for sure what all of these "laws" are,
and the situation is further complicated by the
contextual relevance of the "laws" we've formulated.
Newtonian physics explains a whole lot of behaviour,
but look a bit closer and Einsteinian physics does
a better job. but both are, at best, context-sensitive
approximations of the true behaviour of nature.

so your statement could better be phrased as,
"because it goes against the laws of physics as
many of us currently understand them, it is
unlikely to be correct."

---corey