Take this guy for example. He thinks Newton's laws of gravity and motion are absolute and superior to "theory." Why? Because they have the word "law" in them.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ar3FUsIpojUmJ_W1ZcGDNcfty6IX?qid=20070419150128AA4UrFD
The fact is Newton's laws of motion and gravity are also theories. They were created to explain and predict motion, but the fact is they cannot explain motion of objects going relatively fast or motion at the quantum level. For example, for many years people tried to explain the descrepancy between Newton's laws of motion and Mercury's real procession around the sun. They just didn't fit. Einstein "THEORY" of relativity supercedes Newton's "laws" of motion.
Newton's laws could not predict Mercury's orbit around the sun. Einstein's theory could.
MERCURY'S ORBIT
http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node98.html
2007-05-15 07:48:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
sway,
Apparently you didn't get it. I was bashing a guy who thought "laws" like Newton's "laws" of motion are superior to "theories" like Einstein's "theory" of relatively... simply because of the word law.
He was confused. Newton's laws of motion are also theories, theories that fail to explain motion at relatively high speeds or at the quantum level. Einstein "theory" of relativity explain not only regular every day type of motion but also motion up to the speed of light. They are superior to Newton's "laws" of motion.
2007-05-15 08:15:38 · update #1
It is absurd that in this day and age so many people with no idea how the science process really works consider themselves experts on the subject and can actually get away with it.
2007-05-16 04:08:55 · answer #1 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Next time I am speculating on something I will say.....
"Ok, I have a "law", this is what I think happened", by your reasoning, yes this should be right.......right?
2007-05-15 14:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋