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Exceptions in Scientific Laws?
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<blockquote data-quote="Harte" data-source="post: 195430" data-attributes="member: 443"><p>Science doesn't refer to it's findings as "Laws." Sometimes schoolbooks do though. The idea that there are immutable laws in Physics (anyway) went out the window a long time ago.</p><p>Nowadays there are theories - which have to explain the data and have to be falsifiable to be accepted.</p><p>Scientific theories are destined to be supplanted by later theories that further refine the understanding of what data present (usually when we develop better ways of collecting data.) But those also have to be falsifiable.</p><p></p><p>Certain relationships between variables in science are also called "laws." Most people know about Boyle's Law, for example. </p><p>Boyle's Law gives the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature in any gas. But it doesn't say anything about why gas acts like that so it's not a theory and not subject to revision, barring trying to use it on something that's not a "gas" as we know it. Like a cloud of quarks or something.</p><p></p><p>Harte</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harte, post: 195430, member: 443"] Science doesn't refer to it's findings as "Laws." Sometimes schoolbooks do though. The idea that there are immutable laws in Physics (anyway) went out the window a long time ago. Nowadays there are theories - which have to explain the data and have to be falsifiable to be accepted. Scientific theories are destined to be supplanted by later theories that further refine the understanding of what data present (usually when we develop better ways of collecting data.) But those also have to be falsifiable. Certain relationships between variables in science are also called "laws." Most people know about Boyle's Law, for example. Boyle's Law gives the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature in any gas. But it doesn't say anything about why gas acts like that so it's not a theory and not subject to revision, barring trying to use it on something that's not a "gas" as we know it. Like a cloud of quarks or something. Harte [/QUOTE]
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