Are scientific Laws fact or fiction? Can they be disproved?

Answer 1

scientific laws are fact they are not fictions....they are layed after doing lot of research and development work....so they can not be disporved but they can be improved further by doing more study..

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Answer 2

A scientific law is a law and it is only called a law when it is finally judged to be someting that will and can not change in the universe as we know it - like Newtons Laws and the Gravitational Constant are the final word.
The speculative part of it will be what happens when we enter a Black Hole which is a singularity in space where all the laws of the macro universe change and cease to exist.
Have a great day if you want to go deeper into it - because once you enter this area - there is no end to the darkenss you will have to sift througn to arrive at that elusive final unified law of matter

Answer 3

A scientific law, better called a law of nature, maybe, is just a description of what happens under
certain conditions. Since what happens is in fact
what happens they are fact. It's probably a poor
choice to call them laws. This suggests that they
are something enacted, and may carry a penalty
for breaking them. You can't break them. If you
jump from a tall building and are killed you haven't
been punished for breaking the law of gravity, you
have just provided another demonstration of its
universality.

The problem, of course, is that we can't always
tell whether a given statement describes something that always happens or not. This is why
something that is considered a law at one time may
not be at another time.

Answer 4

Well people who thought the world was flat, thought people were crazy for thinking the world was round untill this became fact.

So, yes, scientific laws can be disproved because we only have certain information that we believe to be true.

Answer 5

Scientific laws are based on basic theory proved by facts and experimentations.They are based on fundamental knowledge of science.If fundamentals are found to be wrong,then these laws also can be wrong.See the example of LIGHT.MANY theories and facts came to light ,time to time,and finally a resonance is the final LAW.But if quarks and neutrinos are proved as small particles moving like waves,in place of energy waves,these laws may have to be modified again.

Answer 6

laws = fact at the moment, until someone proves them wrong.... back in the "dark ages" everyone thought the earth was the cnter of the universe, now we know better. As technology gets better our results and measurements will improve as well thus allowing us to reprove or disprove certain scientics laws.

Answer 7

Two things. First, in science, pretty much everything is open to debate and revision. Obviously, if there is a widely-accepted "law", and somebody finds a way to break it, then it will be revised. Second, there are very few "laws" in science. We deal heavily in "theories", which are hypotheses substantiated by a preponderance of evidence (and hence more open to revision), but very few "laws."

Answer 8

Science is always changing and improving. What may be considered fact now, might only be partially understood and could be disproven when technology and science unveils new discoveries. It was once considered a fact that the earth was flat, until technology and new discoveries proved it was not.

Answer 9

Laws = Fact. If it's merely a theory, then it may be disproved.