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Mad Scientists Science and Mathematics discussion-- theories, arguments, citations, proofs and pudding.

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Old 2002-10-16, 20:04
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Default Are they Laws?

Are the physics laws universal laws? Or do you think they are simply theories with a lot of evidence that haven't been proven wrong yet? What are the chances of someone or something proving wrong the physics laws?
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Old 2002-10-16, 22:02
Genital-Warfare Genital-Warfare is offline
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I think they are very good therorys for their time but bad therorys if looked on by people in the future, kinda hard to type. Through the years many good therorys have been proven wrong exe Daltons therorys.

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Old 2002-10-16, 23:36
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Default Re: Are they Laws?

Scientific laws are theories that have proven correct in every single test of their validity. That is, if something appears to always work the same way, you can make a law about it.

Example: In every single experiment ever conducted, V = I x R. Because current and resistance seem to always be inversely related, we can call this action a law.
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Old 2002-10-17, 21:52
Lysander Lysander is offline
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According to Stephen Hawking, laws are models of reality.
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Old 2002-10-18, 00:01
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Originally posted by ThetaReactor:
Scientific laws are theories that have proven correct in every single test of their validity. That is, if something appears to always work the same way, you can make a law about it.



That's basically overwhelming evidence. I mean, is there the slightest smallest possibilty that one day the results of an experiment in something or rather might not agree with the "law" ?

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Old 2002-10-18, 05:08
abstractAffect abstractAffect is offline
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just wait till more material comes out on interdemsionality .. when we start really explaining things like gavity and magnetics .. then well see how our "law" is proven to be differnt .. you always have to understand it's just human interpratation ..
 
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