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When Does a Theory Become a Law? | The Happy Scientist (thehappyscientist.com)
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[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I was worried that a headline like that was going to be some silly pseudo-science link. So I'm going to quote the fun analogies from the opening paragraph of linked article, to give a better sense to someone looking here where this is going :

I'll start by giving you a few similar questions to answer.

  1. How perfectly do you have to build a house so that it will become a single brick?
  2. How well do you have to write an entire dictionary to change it into a single word?
  3. What would you have to do to change an entire symphony into a single note?

If you are thinking that those questions don't make much sense, then you are feeling very much like a scientist who has been asked "How much proof does it take for a theory to graduate to being a law?"