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“subatomic particles, contrary to what scientists thought, are always symmetrical.” This cannot be called challenging a law of nature. He questions what his co
by nyc111 2y ago
“subatomic particles, contrary to what scientists thought, are always symmetrical.”
This cannot be called challenging a law of nature. He questions what his colleagues generally believed. He challenges a convention of physics profession not a law of nature. But we know that media must exaggerate to sell papers.
- davrosthedalek 2y agoNo. What he challenged was an assumed law of nature. All laws of nature are assumed, as you cannot prove them, or only proof them in the context of a theory (which you then have to assume). It was not a convention.
- nyc111 2y agoSo, before Lee made his discovery physicists believed (or assumed, or conjectured, or theorized) that “the laws of physics were identical whether observed directly or as a mirror image." Lee and Yang proposed that this did not always hold. Their proposal was later confirmed by experiments. So, what physicists believed before Lee, was not a law of nature. Lee challenged what his colleagues believed to be true. But you are right all so called laws of physics are provisional.