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:All, and I do mean all, science is at best a theory. Science relies on induction, not deduction, and what is supported by induction is at best probably true, not certainly true (this goes for most human reasoning in general, but it is clearly true in science--and any good scientist will tell you that). At the moment, gravity, as understood by science, is very different from gravity as understood by Newton, and 100 years from now we will likely have a very different understanding of gravity than we do today. If by "Its a durn law, not a theory." you mean that it is proven beyond a bout, then you are simply wrong, the next piece of evidence we discover could disprove all we thought we knew about gravity. --[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 14:35, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
:All, and I do mean all, science is at best a theory. Science relies on induction, not deduction, and what is supported by induction is at best probably true, not certainly true (this goes for most human reasoning in general, but it is clearly true in science--and any good scientist will tell you that). At the moment, gravity, as understood by science, is very different from gravity as understood by Newton, and 100 years from now we will likely have a very different understanding of gravity than we do today. If by "Its a durn law, not a theory." you mean that it is proven beyond a bout, then you are simply wrong, the next piece of evidence we discover could disprove all we thought we knew about gravity. --[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 14:35, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
::I have to support Reginod that all [[science]] relies on induction. I just have to add that it is not mathematical [[induction]] (and that's why math is not science) but "[[physical induction]]" meaning that if something repeated million times produces certain result there is high probability that repeated once more the result will be the same. Though it is not sure knowledge and if the result is different then it is the time to modify the theory accordingly. As it happened with Newtonian theory and Einstein. [[User:JimJast|JimJast]] 14:20, 4 August 2011 (EDT)
== Current Status of Gravity ==
== Current Status of Gravity ==