physical laws
Universe's governing principles
Physical laws are principles describing how the natural world behaves—relationships between phenomena that hold consistently across time and space.
Newton's laws of motion, the laws of thermodynamics, and the law of gravity are foundational examples.
Unlike human laws, physical laws aren't rules that can be broken; they describe what happens, not what should happen.
The physical laws governing planetary motion.
- natural orderInnate arrangement of things
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- causalityCause-effect connection
- entropyQuantified chaos in systems
- electromagnetismForce linking charge and magnetism
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Proposed explanations to test
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