DanielLC comments on Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 13 May 2013 09:02:51PM 0 points [-]

If there were compelling theoretical reasons, I might suppose that it existed. For example,

  • if every particle had a charge that was an element of a particular group, which could be factored into the Cartesian product of four groups, one for each force, and
  • a particle which has its charge being the identity element in any one of those groups doesn't feel that force, and
  • this theory uses the group structure in some significant way, not just as a glorified table, and
  • every element of the overall group has exactly one kind of particle with that exact combination of charges,
  • except we couldn't tell whether there was a particle in the 'no interactions' slot because it didn't interact with anything...

I'd hazard that they exist, not that it would matter.

Comment author: DanielLC 13 May 2013 10:16:33PM 0 points [-]

In that case I'd figure that they probably exist. Otherwise, I'd figure that they probably don't. In either case, they might exist.