sorry i'm replying back to front... i understood your post better backwards hehe ;)
A law refers to an equation that describes by what ratio causal events effect one another. A theory usually refers to much more then just the law itself.
Another thing, if the source of that causality, the enforcer of causality no longer enforces that causality
then the law is no longer accurate.
So in other words, the law is no longer a law as such ? :?
my question is... has such thing ever happened?
Well we can't say, for all we know transformations might not cut it and we might have the revise the theories. For example there could be a part of the formula missing that results into a factor "1" in normal conditions. If such a thing were the case then the formula would work on simple situations but not on the extreme situations were the factor would not be one. Of course that's all hypotecal. Point is, the way it is now it's not good enough.
hmm but that's too speculative isn't it?
From the little i read, the problem with finding the relationship between quantum and relativistic properties is that there's so many higher order inordinary differential equations to account for (and they are literally hard to solve). As well as other forms of equations (e.g. difference equations.. i dunno wat they mean by difference equations)
The problem is to try account for those differentials... i dont think researchers are even thinking about possibility of there being a factor unaccounted for in F=dp/dt isn't it?
coz keep in mind, it was real easy with regards to the lorenz transformations since lorenz was dealing with ordinary first order equations. not the ugly partial differentails facing new researchers....
DISCLAIMER: *im not underestimating the effort put in2 figuring out the lorenze transforms... but u get wat i mean lol* :hiding:
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Getting back to the point, my question is, based on that wiki definition u gave of a law:
- True. By definition, there have never been repeatable contradicting observations.
- Universal. They appear to apply everywhere in the universe. (Davies)
- Simple. They are typically expressed in terms of a single mathematical equation. (Davies)
- Absolute. Nothing in the universe appears to affect them. (Davies)
- Stable. Unchanged since first discovered (although they may have been shown to be approximations of more accurate laws—see "Laws as approximations" below),
Meaning that they can never be disproven if declared to be a law? right?''
jazaks so much bro 4 ur patience with me! :D