Science/Technology Category

[YOhio]

I would call it The Lab.

[creekster]

I would call it The Lab.

Maybe we could throw in some beakers and a bunsen burner or two, just for atmosphere?

[UtahDan]

Maybe we could throw in some beakers and a bunsen burner or two, just for atmosphere?

[woot]

Calling the law of gravity a theory didn't tip you off that my comments were dripping with sarcasm, eh? *subtracts 10 ROY points*

Gravity is both theory and law, and all the interesting stuff is in the "theory" section. Laws tend to be boring, repeatable observations with zero explanatory power. Theories and laws are very distinct categories, and one can never become the other. Similar to how evolution is fact and theory. That life evolves is a fact, but its all the mechanisms of it that make it interesting, and that's the "theory" part. If the entirety of evolution could be summed up in a single equation, evolution would be a law too. Well, it sort of can, but the other thing they don't tell you in science class is that laws tend to be termed thus when they're coined, even if they don't turn out to be entirely accurate; they don't get promoted from some lower category.

[Non Sequitur]

Gravity is both theory and law, and all the interesting stuff is in the "theory" section. Laws tend to be boring, repeatable observations with zero explanatory power. Theories and laws are very distinct categories, and one can never become the other. Similar to how evolution is fact and theory. That life evolves is a fact, but its all the mechanisms of it that make it interesting, and that's the "theory" part. If the entirety of evolution could be summed up in a single equation, evolution would be a law too. Well, it sort of can, but the other thing they don't tell you in science class is that laws tend to be termed thus when they're coined, even if they don't turn out to be entirely accurate; they don't get promoted from some lower category.

This thread is worthless without TooBlue.

[Jarid in Cedar]

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[wally]

Calling the law of gravity a theory didn't tip you off that my comments were dripping with sarcasm, eh? *subtracts 10 ROY points*

*throws in replay flag, asks for official review:

Gravity is both theory and law, and all the interesting stuff is in the "theory" section. Laws tend to be boring, repeatable observations with zero explanatory power. Theories and laws are very distinct categories, and one can never become the other. Similar to how evolution is fact and theory. That life evolves is a fact, but its all the mechanisms of it that make it interesting, and that's the "theory" part. If the entirety of evolution could be summed up in a single equation, evolution would be a law too. Well, it sort of can, but the other thing they don't tell you in science class is that laws tend to be termed thus when they're coined, even if they don't turn out to be entirely accurate; they don't get promoted from some lower category.

*UtahDan returns 10 points and issues wally a warning only.