These things are literally something which impacts the outcomes of court cases on a nearly daily basis somewhere on the globe, and they interlace into the law i

These things are literally something which impacts the outcomes of court cases on a nearly daily basis somewhere on the globe, and they interlace into the law in various ways both in the legislative process and in the judicial process. It is possible to create a law which does not map correctly to technical reality if you do not understand, it is possible for the court to order something which does not map correctly to technical reality. Technical reality is not always fungible. At some level, it all becomes physics. Both the legislature and the judiciary in the US, and in other governments around the world, are technically and scientifically illiterate.