• Question: is it really impossalble to break the laws of physic's?

    Asked by elyes to Arttu, Ceri, James_M, Monica, Philip on 18 Jun 2011.
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      Arttu Rajantie answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      I would actually look at it differently. The laws of physics are theories that we humans have created to describe nature. Because of that they are imperfect, and sooner or later someone will “break” them by doing an experiment that does not agree with them. Then we need to come up with a better theory that can explain the new experiment, too. For example, we know that classical mechanics (Newton’s laws) does not work for very small systems (where one needs quantum mechanics) or at very high speeds (where one needs special relativity).

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