Timeline for Can a universal law be disproved?
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| Nov 16, 2018 at 12:19 | comment | added | SonOfThought | Doesn't the word--'Universal' imply something that is applicable to all cases? | |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 21:51 | comment | added | ghellquist | I agree on that. For every day life Newtons laws are very good. Almost always, it is only when things reach relativistic speeds, say more that 100.000 km / second, or leave earth into space or looking into things smaller than a molecule that you need to apply different descriptions. So keep on teaching Newtons description of the world in school, but be careful to say that they are not universal laws. | |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | SonOfThought | Newton's Laws would be enough for our daily life. Einstein's equation wouldn't digest for children and laymen. | |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 11:21 | comment | added | serv0id | @ghellquist so why don't we make Newton's laws obsolete and start teaching Einstein's equations of Relativity to students in school? Are we learning the wrong thing? Then what's the use of that! | |
| Nov 14, 2018 at 17:46 | history | edited | SonOfThought | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2018 at 17:45 | comment | added | ghellquist | Does it prove Newton wrong? Yes. The so called laws are proven to not be laws with unlimited applicability. For most people in most situations they are very good approximations, but there are plenty of examplels where they are wrong enough to be a problem. | |
| Nov 14, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | serv0id | @ghellquist so does this prove Newton wrong? | |
| Nov 13, 2018 at 19:33 | comment | added | ghellquist | If you check out General Relativy (one of Einstein's theories) you will find that gravity is not a force. GR describes it as a distorsion of time-space. And there are empirical evidence showing that GR very accurately describes the world we live in. Including that there is no universal time. | |
| Nov 13, 2018 at 14:50 | history | edited | SonOfThought | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | SonOfThought | I was talking about the Gravitational force. Though in reality internal and external are absurd, here in this case, we should treat it as internal. The egg is the thing not the egg-shell. So the force must be internal. Which is the center of gravitational force?...in the case of egg? Is it within or without? | |
| Nov 13, 2018 at 12:37 | comment | added | serv0id | The thing you refer as 'internal force' is I think external force itself. External force means the sole force the egg (in this case) exerts. But the attraction of the earth by the egg is a result of an external force known as Gravitational Force. Is my thinking right? | |
| Nov 13, 2018 at 3:01 | comment | added | SonOfThought | @CriglCragl, Thank you. It was a little confusing. I have edited it. | |
| Nov 13, 2018 at 3:00 | history | edited | SonOfThought | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 2:25 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Nov 12, 2018 at 23:37 | comment | added | CriglCragl | No references, and not clear what you are saying. | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 17:10 | history | answered | SonOfThought | CC BY-SA 4.0 |