Posted: Oct 21, 2016 12:19 am
Thomas Eshuis wrote:
No amount of blind appeal to common sense, no matter how you rephrase it, will change the fact that you keep failing to demonstrate how the laws of physics cannot exist without physical objects.
E=mc^2 cannot exist without reference to the velocity of a physical phenomenon called light and objects having mass. Likewise, Newton's inverse-square law of gravitation requires there to be two objects having mass that are attracted to each other. The laws of physics are derived from observing and measuring physical phenomena just as Pythagoras' hypoteneuse rule is derived from measuring the sides of a right angled triangle. They don't exist in isolation to what they refer to.