2006-08-16 15:12:32 · 18 answers · asked by X 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
PLease justify whatever answer you provide.
2006-08-16 15:18:36 · update #1
Interestingly GUT, the as yet to be elucidated Grand Unified Theory ,the theory of everything, is a law which "breaks" down (Perhaps the word permutes is more applicable)
to yield the fundamental forces we see today and the corresponding "laws of physics".The joining of the magnetic and electric force into the electromagnetic force, and in turn the joining of this force with the weak nuclear force yielding to a more basic force the electroweak force, is the reverse of this process.
I, for one ,am convinced that the most fundamental principles of the cosmos are completely immutable. Noting that all these laws hang on mathematical an geometric structure, consider this fact or "law" : the sum of the interior angels of a triangle are equal to half the units of a circle, 180 degrees = 360/2. This holds true now ,here , and everywhere. Likewise many other things hold true everyhwere. So in a way the universe is very rigid in it's insistence on mathematical logic.
2006-08-16 17:12:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Laws of physics is just the best hypothesis at this time. There are not right or wrong on the laws that we have right now. If you can find a better theory or laws than the laws that already exists, then you can replace it with your new hypothesis or theory. e.g. Newtons' Laws is used since long time ago and until now, however, 1900s Relativities' Theory was formulated. Actually the truth is that when we simplify everything in relativities theory by using the factor in the earth, we got Newton's Laws. So, nothing is right or wrong, it is just the best hypothesis we can get.
2006-08-16 15:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by Edwin W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have an open mind. All the so-called laws of physics are considered laws simply because they've never been observed to be different. That's not the same thing as saying that they can't be broken or at least modified by future advances in our understanding of physics.
2006-08-16 15:21:05 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As our knowledge grows , the odds are that the laws will be changed rather than get broken. Quantum physics and string theory could change the way we understand the world around us. This change to our understanding of how things work has been predicted by every great physicist. Even Newtons laws tend to fall apart in the quantum world.
So I guess you can define that physical laws can be broken depending on what state you are in. (Pun)
2006-08-16 15:26:50 · answer #4 · answered by Buzz and Gang 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The law is a law because sooner or later its Broken.
Just because we have law it doesnt mean that all work within the frame it was meant to be..
What works in a reference system may be different in another reference system.
WE can only understand what the Human intelect can perceive.
Were not the laws of gravity of Newton brocken by Einstein.
2006-08-16 15:48:05 · answer #5 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once they are broken then they are not laws anymore. The idea of a law in science is of a description that seems to hold true over all cases. many of the "laws" of physics have been broken over the ages and hopefully we can continue breaking them for a long time, giving us newer and better descriptions of reality.
2006-08-16 15:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
better answer... the laws of physics are BY DEFINITION unbreakable, unless you're definition of the "laws of physics" includes exceptions like gods or fairys can manipulate them or break them at will... We will ignore those types of definitions for now. If you've found something that "breaks" the laws of physics, then your concept of the laws of physics are wrong!
If gods and faries can manipulate the laws of physics, one might say there may be Meta-physics laws that the gods can't break... but then maybe there are meta-gods that can break the meta-physics laws?
If that's not weird enough. You coulde have a infinity of universes built up as such in any such combination imaginable by any infinite god, each universe being the metaverse of the other, and yet still have an omega-meta universe that is still the "metaverse" of all of them and still have omega-meta gods living in a omega-meta universe with omega-meta laws that possibly omega-meta-omega-meta gods can then break at will. Ask Zeno if you don't believe me.
2006-08-16 15:45:47 · answer #7 · answered by Jay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Miracles are not leaps above science. They are made by way of the laws. God connects directly to the laws he has created.
2006-08-16 15:33:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask Steven Hawking
2006-08-16 15:20:19 · answer #9 · answered by theGODwatcher_ 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ask Sir Isaac Newton.
2006-08-16 15:18:27 · answer #10 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋