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Comment Re:This again? (Score 1) 480

It's one thing to be open to the possibility that something is incomplete.

It's quite another to write a long web page with grand predictions for something that is unproven and has no theoretical explanation yet.

It's also ludicrous to make a computer model without any sort of theoretical basis. I can "invent" a warp drive by imagining that $_phenomenon is a good approximation of $_supposed_operating_principle and making a computer model of that. Naturally, the results are pure bullshit and profoundly meaningless.

Neither of the above disproves very solid physics. It'll take something a lot more formal to reasonably conclude that space is asymmetric.

Comment Re:This again? (Score 5, Informative) 480

Wrong.

Conservation of linear momentum is most certainly NOT derived from Thermodynamics.

Conservation of linear momentum is a mathematical consequence of translational symmetry - in other words, momentum is conserved if the laws of physics are invariant in space. Similarly, angular momentum is conserved if the laws of physics are invariant by rotation.

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