Post #4139176

2026-07-27 07:39 UTC

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social Sorry to be a pedant, a Law is the hardest it gets. You can't fuck around with the Laws of Gravity. Theories come and go and many are a work in progress: some withstand the test of experiment and observation better than others as the theory gets better and better at explaining all the facets of a phenomenon. However, as far as lay people are concerned, science as a constantly moving feast goes against the absolutism promoted by many non-scientists to justify the shit they come out with.

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-07-27 14:29

@tribactam@social.vivaldi.net @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social You can't fuck around with the Laws of Gravity. You absolutely can, Einstein did and this is why no one has the hubris of Newton when it comes to naming their theories anymore.

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@goedelchen@mastodontech.de 2026-07-27 09:14

@tribactam@social.vivaldi.net @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social ... and you can have a theory of what the Laws of Gravity are - that's all you can have. The issue is that, like most words, the word "theory" is used differently in different contexts. As Wikipedia puts it 1/2

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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-07-27 10:40

@tribactam@social.vivaldi.net Ehh, "law" is really just another word for "observation". It's from before we had a good understanding of scientific progress. Back then it was thought that we "discover" the "laws of nature". But that is just another way to fool ourselves into thinking our theories are completely true and infallible. Correctly understood, the law is how the world behaves in some respect. We don't really have any direct access to that, so instead we make measurements and form theories. @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

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@xChaos@f.cz 2026-07-27 12:23

@tribactam@social.vivaldi.net @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social relevant natural law for Global warming (theory?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation#Planck's_law_of_black-body_radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation#Effective_temperature_of_Earth And this law may (or may not) save us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law

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