Comments on: What’s the difference between a scientific law and theory? (in TED-Ed GIFs) https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/06/07/whats-the-difference-between-a-scientific-law-and-theory-in-ted-ed-gifs/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Victor Divine https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/06/07/whats-the-difference-between-a-scientific-law-and-theory-in-ted-ed-gifs/#comment-945896 Victor Divine Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:25:52 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=7864#comment-945896 excellent post.what an article that changes ideas.

]]> By: Jared Rogers https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/06/07/whats-the-difference-between-a-scientific-law-and-theory-in-ted-ed-gifs/#comment-908569 Jared Rogers Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:40:03 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=7864#comment-908569 What an insightful post. Tons of small succinct gems within each paragraph, this one was particularly good:

“In simplest terms, a law predicts what happens while a theory proposes why.”

As well as:

“Even incorrect theories have their value. Discredited alchemy was the birthplace of modern chemistry”

Please keep making lessons like these. :)

]]> By: Sahil https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/06/07/whats-the-difference-between-a-scientific-law-and-theory-in-ted-ed-gifs/#comment-908528 Sahil Mon, 13 Jun 2016 02:57:28 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=7864#comment-908528 Very helpful…will share it with my teachers and students. Thanks a lot!

]]> By: Malcolm https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/06/07/whats-the-difference-between-a-scientific-law-and-theory-in-ted-ed-gifs/#comment-908258 Malcolm Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:18:23 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=7864#comment-908258 Any law or theory needs to do two things to give them credibility: explain and predict.
Most laws and theories attempt to explain, some better than others. Many theories do not have predictive power, although we would expect all laws should have strong predictive powers. The stronger the predictive power of a theory the better the theory will be.

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