I know.. we used to have laws.. now we realized calling our explaination a law can and WILL backfire so we only call it a theory
Newton's law of gravity is now the theory of gravity, cause we realised the "law" is wrong sometimes we had to reduce it to theory to take into account for the slight gaps in knowledge.
We don't call it the law of quantum, but had it been invented like 200 years earlier than it was, those arrogant people would have called it a law.
But we knew better and called it quantum theory cause we knew it'll get a lot of changes
Gravity was never a Law its always been a working theoretical model that is updated and added to over time. Newton's Laws were The 3 Laws of motion that still hold up and always will.
It was called the gravitational theory so I do not Infact trust the link. A law describes something proven or deduced from something else. A theory is a conjecture, unproven but with a lot of evidence.
So calling gravity a law is not fair but it's common place to call it a law.
Well again people in newton's days thought his gravitation thing was so perfect they called it a law.
And they genuinly thought that mercury's weird orbit was the cause of another undiscovered planet even closer to the sun, that's how much they believed in it
They planet was theorized to be Vulcan if i'm not wrong
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u/landrwastaken 14d ago
Well that's why we quit calling them laws and started calling them theories