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In reply to the discussion: I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT trump is going to lose in November. [View all]qazplm135
(7,447 posts)Second, laws and theories are all science is.
That's literally how it works.
It's like saying all we have in a democracy are laws and regulations. Yeah, that's how it works. What else would you expect?
Nope, we haven't cracked the mechanism behind gravity yet. But we know how it works. We know how it works so well we can calculate the motions of planets for millions of years into the future and track it millions of years to the past. We know how it works so well that we can adjust how time flows in different gravity wells so our GPS satellites don't go out of sync because they are traveling higher up in the Earth's gravity well and time moves ever so slightly faster up there than down here on the surface. We know how it works so well that we can send a probe up from the planet one day, and have it link up with another celestial body weeks, months or years later, and then loop it around that body to just the right speed to catch up with yet another one after that. We can detect and measure gravitational waves from two black holes merging BILLIONS of light years away.
But whether it is carried by a particle like a graviton, or simply a fundamental property of space time, or a field that permeates throughout the universe, nope, we haven't cracked that particular nut yet. But we have cracked that nut on the other three fundamental forces. And we've done all of that in the space really of about 300 years more or less.
So, again, I don't think you've had enough exposure to hard science to make a statement like that.