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Originally Posted by Delvo
My favorite explanation is this: a law is an equation, and something that isn't an equation isn't a law.
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Originally Posted by cran
I always thought it was the difference between what and why ...
what happens => law
why it happens => theory
so that there can be both laws and theories dealing with ... gravity, for instance ...
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I like both these, but I then to think “law” is an archaic, that doesn’t get assigned to new science (while most of the of the classical laws have been downgraded to mere guild lines)