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Posted 2008-12-11, 11:23 AM in reply to
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"I don't get it. Asking if a law..."
!King_Amazon! said:
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I don't get it. Asking if a law applies to something that we haven't even experienced is odd. It's akin to asking if natural selection applies to aliens.
The distinguishability between scientific laws and theories is inherently arbitrary in places, e.g. in examples like "Scientific theories are generally more complex than laws". Why should Maxwell's equations (in the form of the Heaviside Four) be representative of a theory, when Newton's "Laws" of motion are no more simple?
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram
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