This is something I’ve been wondering about for some time. Is it possible that some laws of physics are straight-up wrong, and can be disproved as our understanding/technology improves? How concrete are the laws of physics? Is it possible for us to be absolutely certain about anything?
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Throughout history, as human knowledge grew, they learned to better explain and predict the world around them. This will continue to happen as time goes on. This will likely result in the “laws of physics” changing to adapt to new discovered, but basic principles with mostly likely be unchanged. For example, we may find in the future that gravity is not what we currently think it is, and a new theory may be created to explain the effects we see. However, as has happened throughout history, the new theory would better predict the effects of gravity, but the old theory would still accurately predict the effects of gravity in most cases. Often the new theory is more complicated than the old theory, so the old theory (and math) would still continue to be used in “simpler” situations.
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