[Buddha-l] Energy

[Bernie Simon]

On Jul 4, 2008, at 2:00 PM, buddha-l-request at mailman.swcp.com wrote:

> The total amount of momentum in a closed system is conserved.
> "Everything", ie, the "universe" is the ultimate "closed system" -
> therefore the amount of momentum in the universe never changes. Ever.
> "Eternal" is an adjective referring to something that lasts forever.
> Like momentum in a closed system.

Amounts are not considered things and so cannot have properties such  
as eternal or temporary.

> The laws of conservation of energy are not so much laws of the  
> universe
> per se, but definitions that structure the way Western physics looks  
> at
> the universe

So physics is nothing more than a tautology? The whole of classical  
mechanics can be derived from the conservation laws.