"Robert J. Kolker" wrote in message
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Greysky wrote:

...because god did not make a very complicated universe. From simple
precepts, many conclusions can be reached - back then the common
knowledge
was baryon number is not conerved. As proton decay was not observed, the
theories became more and more outlandish and cosmology became sillier
and
sillier. To get grounded once more, try as a exercise to think of the
implications of the simple modification to the equivalecne principal I
gave.
What happens if you stick it in absolute magnitude signs?

The universe is complicated. It is also not beautiful. The idea that
physics has to be based on something simple and beautiful is a conceit.
Truth is not Beauty. Beauty is not Truth and the world, -as it is- is
messy and ugly.

Do not quite agree with you Bob. Maxwell's equations for example are a lot
simpler than the large array of eltormagnetic phenomena it explains. And we
now know that even those can be explained by local gauge symmetry. It would
be rather strange that nature chose to be beautiful and elegant in some
places and not in others. But that does not imply we should only concern
ourselves with theories that are like that - we should take our hypothesis
from clues wherever we find them.

Thanks
Bill