Uniformitarian Principle

Vidhyanath Rao rao.3 at osu.edu
Fri Jul 6 14:43:54 UTC 2001


<philjennings at juno.com> wrote:

> Gravity is a constant, but it is contingent on mass and distance.

The first part is actually an consequence of the UP. People (Dirac?)
have proposed theories in which the gravitational constant (and more
recently, the cosmological constant) changes over time. It is just that
such theories do not solve any pressing problem.



More information about the Indo-european mailing list