Physics In The_Think_Tank

If you could break the laws of physics, they wouldn't be laws

Funny, but technically floating doesn't defy gravity. Gravity doesn't "stop working" once you're flying. Infact, flying wouldn't work without gravity - whether it is floating or einged flight or whatever.

Good point there

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Like a turd

You could argue the same with the normal laws

The 'normal' laws are made up by 'authorities' and are based purely in coercion and belief. The lawys of Physics (and other laws of Nature), on the other hand, are based in reality.

So that's basically the difference?

You can break laws as they are fairly arbitrary concepts of human interaction. The "laws" of physics can't be broken, because they aren't technically laws at all. People just thought it would be a fitting name because they wanted to tell nature what it could and couldn't do. But that's not how the world works.

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Really?

Well, the term "law" in this case is a bit unlucky... It's not something we decide upon that then can be broken. We used to believe we couldn't fly because that would defy the "law" of gravity... but we just didn't understand gravity enough.

The "laws" of physics aren't laws at all. You could either argue that what we currently understand about how the universe works as "the laws of physics" and then sure they can be broken. Happens all the time when new discoveries are made that can't be explained with our current models. But that doesn't mean that that thing is defying the mechanisms of the universe - it just means we didn't understand that mechanism before.

That's why I define "the laws of physics" as the fundamental mechanisms of how the universe works. And those cannot be broken. We just might not be at the final stage of understanding all of these mechanisms. We used to think atoms were the smallest things that could ever exist. But finding quarks didn't break how physics works. Quarks had always been there making up our so-called "elemental building blocks". Finding them only broke what we perceived as the "laws" of physics. And maybe that will keep happening forever, maybe we will one day finally find the definitive bedrock of all physics, and maybe we will just stop making any new discoveries without ever reaching the final explanation... Who knows?

Wow

What I wonder if if the word "law" in the sense of justice is derived from the laws of science or the other way around....

Law described rules for social interaction first. Science only took the name because what they first described as "laws" were actually postulates of how the world works without proof behind them. And then it just got adapted for any additional things they figured out.

Finding something smaller than a quark or absolute no movement at the deepest subatomic level lol simplest way, stop patent/intellectual property pirates and allow abunch to be able to be used lol

Could be useful

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You ok?

I don’t think I can think anymore thinks after failing to answers that question

*mind blown*

Yes

This is my actual 1st meme that is scientific in The_Think_Tank

I should do the same, but all I can think of is laws of physics and is water wet

No because it's the law. Even if it seems like we just did something that broke the laws WE wrote, that means that we were wrong about that law and it's something else.

Change location - the laws of physics differ in ways we can't predict in areas of extreme gravity, like black holes and neutron stars.

And I don't know why they call them laws of physics - in science, nothing is ever a law, it's always a theory until disproven.

I'm not an expert on the subject, nor have I taken a class on it, but someone here called such laws as a product of arbitration. I don't know what s/he believes, or why s/he believes that, but to me they're called Laws for a reason. And it had nothing to do with flippant labeling.

The reason why it is called Laws or Laws of Nature is because unless it is acted upon by another force, it will always... act in accordance to its nature. Mind you, nature doesn't mean a spiritual entity, either personal or impersonal, but is simply a natural... order of things.

So an apple, unless is intercepted by another equally strong force (or greater) will always... fall to the ground because of gravity, another natural law, All of the examples I've used is in relations to Newton's 3 Laws of Motion.

Now to finally answer the question: can it be posssible to break the laws of nature? No, it is never possible for ordinary human beings to break the laws of physics.

And the only ones who can, is, God.

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