ext_5509 ([identity profile] herewiss13.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ase 2005-08-16 01:17 am (UTC)

Re: Not quite

Unless you can demonstrate that every single body of mass in the universe always obeys the inverse square law (and that's a lot of bodies), then Gravity remains a theory. The observation that a single apple accelerates toward the center of the Earth is a fact, but the generalization of that to the Law of Gravity is theory...as is the explanation for what gravity _is_ (folded spacetime or gravitons). Gravity is a theory _and_ a fact.

So is evolution.

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