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MineralMan

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13. Well, there are Newton's Laws of Motion
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 01:11 PM
Apr 2019

They've been proven to be incorrect on a universal scale, but they are still correct enough on our own planet in everyday use to be valid. You can use those equations, as long as your point of reference is scaled for our own planet.

Non-Newtonian Physics is full of theories about the laws of physics in other situations. Newton got his "laws" wrong, but we still use them, because they work in our own environment.

These days, you don't hear a lot of about the Laws of Science. That's old terminology. We have theories about just about everything that are supported by existing evidence. When new evidence is available, the theories are modified by that evidence. That's what science is all about. Evidence.

Anything that doesn't involve real, observable or measurable evidence can't be science. Religion is one such thing.

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