If you take a situation A and perform “surgery” on it to turn it into situation B , then situation B is not a description of the reality of situation A....but B could still happen, and might have happened. You can only map 0.0...1 % of reality, so you can’t remotely guarantee that the the conjectured situation does not occur in time or space.
Whenever you plan to do something that hasn’t been done before, you do it by applying known laws to a novel situation...for instance , sending a rocket to the moon is a novel application of Newton’s laws.
To insist that every situation is unique, and that there is no framework of laws that allow you to answer what-if questions is a basic rejection of science!
If you take a situation A and perform “surgery” on it to turn it into situation B , then situation B is not a description of the reality of situation A....but B could still happen, and might have happened. You can only map 0.0...1 % of reality, so you can’t remotely guarantee that the the conjectured situation does not occur in time or space.
Whenever you plan to do something that hasn’t been done before, you do it by applying known laws to a novel situation...for instance , sending a rocket to the moon is a novel application of Newton’s laws.
To insist that every situation is unique, and that there is no framework of laws that allow you to answer what-if questions is a basic rejection of science!