tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post7735554257821404288..comments2024-03-25T15:31:12.151-07:00Comments on We Live In A Political World: #224 / Laws Of History?Gary A. Pattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15049925834933920507noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post-55750553016667484052020-08-11T12:42:22.112-07:002020-08-11T12:42:22.112-07:00I understand what your saying here, Gary, but the ...I understand what your saying here, Gary, but the description of "laws of nature" is a bit off.<br /><br />Despite the popular phrase "laws of nature," there are no physical "laws' in natural science. The so-called "Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation" is not a law, it is a formula that describes what happens when two physical bodies are attracted to one another, with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. This is observation, not a universal law.<br /><br />In fact, we now know that this "law" does not apply to areas of extreme gravitation, such as black holes, where Newtonian physics breaks down and quantum physics takes command. <br /><br />The so-called laws of Nature apply only to the macro world, and no longer are in force at sub-atomic, quantum levels, which are just as real as the macro world, maybe even more so!<br /><br />As to history, the present is where and what we do. History is our memory (mental, verbal or recorded) of what we did. The future is our imagination of what we might do.<br /><br />We cannot change the world, we can only change what we do in the present.Michael A. Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980105313542633114noreply@blogger.com