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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As a general rule, nothing is 100% completely rock solid certain in science, or at least it’s not treated that way.
Scientific laws are not immutable- they’re just extensively, rigorously proven methods of defining natural phenomena of the universe. In other words, scientific laws are a way of bringing the fundamental properties of our universe down to human scale.
However, *disproving* a scientific law entirely would be monumentally unlikely, given the extremely rigorous methods that go into formulating them. It’s also not what science aims to do.
However, it’s possible that tomorrow someone makes a new earth-shattering discovery that proves an existing law *incomplete* and forces us to reevaluate/reformulate it to accommodate this new knowledge- and there are many brilliant humans around the world going to work each day trying to do just that.
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