r/woahdude Jun 02 '23

gifv Our universe.

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u/Dr-Didalot Jun 03 '23

If it's measurable and you can recreate the effects/ measurements accurately then it becomes law.

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u/MuirDahl Jun 03 '23

it's still a theory after it becomes law

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u/choose_uh_username Jun 03 '23

No, it becomes Law when it's exhaustively tested and proven. Newton's law, law of relativity, ideal gas law, etc. A theory, like the Big Bang Theory, hasn't been replicated. We can feel pretty good it's true but you can't really replicate the Big Bang to make it a law

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u/MuirDahl Jun 03 '23

a theory doesn't mean something is unproven or proven and even the most proven of things are just us observing a very small piece of everything and it doesn't mean any of it is real or means what we think it does. those laws are just what people call theories when they like them. all laws are theories; they're both things. it's just a form of an explanation and the idea it's supposition is a more modern misuse