For example: theory of relativity and law of gravity.
I googled this but answer wasn’t clear to me.
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~~There isn’t much difference. A law is supposed to be more thoroughly tested than a theory, but when people name something, they might not correctly choose whether to call it a law or a theory.~~
~~Often theories or laws were named “the Theory/Law of _____” a long time ago, and the original term became part of the way people referred to them. For example, Relativity might be considered a law, but people have been calling it “The Theory of Relativity” for a long time, so the word Theory is, to the people using it, just part of the name. So the distinction loses its meaning.~~
It was pointed out that this wasn’t entirely correct. The central point – that people use a term because it’s what they have heard, and that term might not be the correct one – is right, but it appears that I wasn’t using the scientifically correct definitions of the terms.
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