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Show 268 TEE FOR EACH GIVEN LAW, STATE AT SCIS';TIFIC HSVrHOD LEAST ONE FACT OF THOSE THAT cor'PRISE rr. (note hint) Law All light travels ir. s:raight lines. People who mu.rde r '<{ill be pun i she d _(.:?h2.do'>Js) ( \.79 S ::':,9 '-- a s , Never eat ) ------.---- Doisons. l All planets orbit stars. Most people watch TV in the evening. ar-se n i c ) (earth) (Tourself ) FOlli'1 THE LAVl FROl-i 'rY2 GIVEN PACTS AND STA'rE \ffi:STRER IT IS ABSOHJT2LY RELIABLE FOR DO HOT ClIb"CK AHS'vIERS m·!TIL FINISHED. PREDICTION OR PROBABLY WLIA3LE. Faili This grass This grass Law Reliability is green. is green. etc. Air flows from highs to lows. from high to low \ater f'Lows pr0ssure. etc. The sun came up The sun came up yesterday. today. etc. 6. A THEORY is a group of similar laws, some of which have not been identified' or Theories often involve a time element because it is which may not be observable. difficult to "prove" laws that are in the future or far removed into the past. STUDY this example: Theory Laws Living into generations new slowly changed fo:cms millions of years ago. + Livig generations will always slowly change into new forms. Living generations slowly change into new forms within our lifetime. + (This Living generations ,,,ill· s Lowl.y change into new forms Some theories in the can the fuure. become so is simply a way of expressing theo7 of organic evolution.) reliable that they may be reclassified predictively a.Iways remain beyond even the slightest components. Many people confuse theories with statement t2.t is unproven or "not yet hypotheses. A hVDottesis is a sUGgested the sae complexity as laws and, with proper of are oserved". generally They A theory, then, and predictive. instruments or technics, they ca become observable Can you identify which of the three is usuallv made UD of laws aDd hy?otheses. laws in the above" example are probably hypotheses? but many theorie into very general laws, hope of observing all their s |
