could Earth survive if most stuff in the universe when poof!???

RSF Group wrote:
suppose in the next second, every star, every black hole, every quasar,
every everything in the universe disappeard EXCEPT for our solar
system.



Obviously we wouldn't exist had not the rest of the universe
produced us. Given the laws of physics, it is impossible for
matter and energy to disapprear from the universe.

If the universe somehow consisted of only of our solar system
as it currently exists, there would hardly be any inertia....
so I'm not sure the solar system could exist as it does now.

Sam Wormley wrote:
RSF Group wrote:
suppose in the next second, every star, every black hole, every quasar,
every everything in the universe disappeard EXCEPT for our solar
system.



Obviously we wouldn't exist had not the rest of the universe
produced us. Given the laws of physics, it is impossible for
matter and energy to disapprear from the universe.

If the universe somehow consisted of only of our solar system
as it currently exists, there would hardly be any inertia....
so I'm not sure the solar system could exist as it does now.

If we're going to suppose impossible nonconstructivistic hypotheticals,
what would happen if all at once 1 became equal to 2 ?

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Sam Wormley wrote:
RSF Group wrote:
suppose in the next second, every star, every black hole, every quasar,
every everything in the universe disappeard EXCEPT for our solar
system.



Obviously we wouldn't exist had not the rest of the universe
produced us. Given the laws of physics, it is impossible for
matter and energy to disapprear from the universe.

If the universe somehow consisted of only of our solar system
as it currently exists, there would hardly be any inertia....
so I'm not sure the solar system could exist as it does now.

If we're going to suppose impossible nonconstructivistic hypotheticals,
what would happen if all at once 1 became equal to 2 ?

what do you mean by 'all at once' in such a context ?

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If the universe somehow consisted of only of our solar system
as it currently exists, there would hardly be any inertia....
so I'm not sure the solar system could exist as it does now.

If we're going to suppose impossible nonconstructivistic hypotheticals,
what would happen if all at once 1 became equal to 2 ?

what do you mean by 'all at once' in such a context ?


Are you implying the word "mean" has meaning in a radically truncated
universe where 1=2?

Sam Wormley wrote:
RSF Group wrote:
suppose in the next second, every star, every black hole, every quasar,
every everything in the universe disappeard EXCEPT for our solar
system.


Obviously we wouldn't exist had not the rest of the universe
produced us. Given the laws of physics, it is impossible for
matter and energy to disapprear from the universe.

Happens all the time: Event Horizon.


If the universe somehow consisted of only of our solar system
as it currently exists, there would hardly be any inertia....
so I'm not sure the solar system could exist as it does now.

Ah! You're a Machist: Ernst Mach.

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Sam Wormley wrote:
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If the universe somehow consisted of only of
our solar system as it currently exists, there
would hardly be any inertia.... so I'm not sure
the solar system could exist as it does now.

Ah! You're a Machist: Ernst Mach.

As am I, if it matters.

David A. Smith

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Sam Wormley wrote:
RSF Group wrote:
suppose in the next second, every star, every black hole, every quasar,
every everything in the universe disappeard EXCEPT for our solar
system.



Obviously we wouldn't exist had not the rest of the universe
produced us. Given the laws of physics, it is impossible for
matter and energy to disapprear from the universe.

If the universe somehow consisted of only of our solar system
as it currently exists, there would hardly be any inertia....
so I'm not sure the solar system could exist as it does now.

If we're going to suppose impossible nonconstructivistic hypotheticals,
what would happen if all at once 1 became equal to 2 ?