Re: Things that don't evolve

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:05:03 -0400 "Chris Barden"
<chris.barden@gmail.com> writes:
> Mathematical constants and static formulae come to mind.. I don't
> believe I've ever heard anyone mention "mathematical evolution".
>
> It's important, I think, to distinguish between evolutions that have
> or are thought to have scientific mechanisms to explain them
> (biological, planetary, galactic, etc.) and mere rhetorical
> "evolution" that just means "somebody read this, and did this other
> thing, which got somebody else thinking about this new technology".
> Unless all progress is to be considered social evolution... a
> "theory
> of everything" must have some weight behind it for it to be any more
> than a tautology.
>
A constant is a constant, to be sure. This applies to physical constants
as well. However, the recognition and computation or measurement of
constants develops.
Dave
Received on Tue Mar 14 13:28:23 2006