> Consider you dropping a baseball off of the Eiffel Tower That seems like a really odd example to use unless you are making the point that the basic laws of p

> Consider you dropping a baseball off of the Eiffel Tower That seems like a really odd example to use unless you are making the point that the basic laws of physics can only take you so far. As starter, assuming we drop it from the top (330m), how fast is the baseball travelling when it hits the ground? If you apply standard physics formulas, I think you are likely to be way wrong. There are good formulas for the terminal velocity of a perfect sphere in still air, but I think the error would be significant if you try to apply this to a real life baseball. And how close to the point of aim (straight down) does it hit? If you just drop it, it's a knuckleball, and it's going to float every which way. I don't think we even have a formula you can use here---you are basically limited to testing it out and measuring. So while I'd agree that laws of economics are nowhere near as precise and well founded as the laws of physics, at least for this example I'm not sure that they differ as much as you'd like when put in actual practice.