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%WHAT SCIENTISTS KNOW 851125
What is it that scientists know?
Scientists know how to describe how nature behaves.
They know the reliable patterns in what to non-scientists
seem to be disorderly processes. Nature behaves as if it
were always obeying certain laws of nature, and scientists
know what those laws of nature are. Nature does not
violate its natural laws, for they are not legislated
laws; they are laws which describe reliably how nature
behaves reliably.
Humans violate virtually all humanly legislated laws.
It is the exception that a human law exists for long
without some human violating the law. Even presumably
divine moral laws are regularly desecrated by human
violations; e.g., the Ten Commandments. Human laws are
not descriptions of how humans behave, but descriptions of
how some humans think humans should behave. Natural laws
are descriptions of the reliable ways in which nature
behaves.
Not all natural laws are descriptions of how nature
behaves without exception, but many natural laws exist for
which there are no known exceptions, no known violations;
e.g.; conservation laws of linear momentum, angular
momentum, energy, charge and baryon number. Other natural
laws are probabilistic in nature: they declare the
relatively low probability of certain violations of a
"law".
Scientists and engineers accomplish their "miracles"
by respecting natural laws and designing equipment in
terms of the reliable knowledge they have of how objects
will behave consistently in light of the reliable
descriptions which natural laws are of how natural objects
behave. Scientists do not try to violate natural laws
because there is no known way to try to violate any
natural law.
As regards human laws the problem is to minimize the
probability of humans wanting to and finding ways to
violate them to their own advantage. As regards natural
laws there is no scientist who knows how to begin to find
a way to violate a natural law. It is a logical absurdity
to even consider trying to find a way to violate a natural
law like the law of conservation of charge, momentum or
energy. It is impossible to find a way to violate a
natural law.
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