hooke's law correlates spring length with force, but doesnt prescribe an order of events. You can increase the weight or move the spring to a higher gravitatio

hooke's law correlates spring length with force, but doesnt prescribe an order of events. You can increase the weight or move the spring to a higher gravitational field or something else we dont' know yet. However, as humans we can't reason of a way to increase the length of the spring without changing the force, therefore we establish a causation model that "if increase-weight then extends". However if by some empirical process we could confirm that "if extends then increase-weight", hookes law would still be the same (we can do by e.g. putting it in a moving frame of reference)