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Which was why I was asking about the law.

Which was why I was asking about the law.

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.

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?