Guest Post by Dan Fauth
When I wrote my previous paper “The Hydro Flask Challenge to Anthropogenic Climate Change” (link: https://climateofsophistry.com/2016/04/06/the-hydro-flask-challenge-to-anthropogenic-climate-change ), I didn’t expect to write a sequel to the article. During the writing of that article I experienced one of those “light bulb” moments. My epiphany occurred when I postulated that a Hydro Flask with hot liquid inside should cool slower if it is upside down rather than right side up. If this doesn’t make sense to you, you should read or re-read the article. This postulate is not the epiphany; it will become obvious in the paragraphs that follow.
One of the strengths of science can be stated as follows: “You may conduct 10 thousand experiments and not prove a theory correct, but you can conduct one experiment and prove that theory wrong”.
That being said, within the realm of science we have certain Laws. You may wonder how a theory gets to become a Law. I did and the answer is pretty odd. As it turns out, over time failure to prove a theory wrong can lead to it becoming a Law of Science. Some examples are The Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy, The Inverse Square Law of Gravitation and the Laws of Thermodynamics. Thousands if not millions of experiments have been performed and not one has disproven these laws. So we can see that the Laws of Science are created by a process of unanimous consensus among scientists.
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