shminux comments on Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules - Less Wrong

32 Post author: pragmatist 08 August 2012 04:27AM

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Comment author: shminux 08 August 2012 11:32:57PM 0 points [-]

Feel free to elaborate.

Comment author: DaFranker 08 August 2012 11:51:33PM *  3 points [-]

"I don't know." or "This seems impossible." or even "My teacher mumbled something about gravity being canceled by the ground's opposite upwards reaction once an object is at rest, but that still feels incomplete. I'm sure there's a better explanation that I just don't know about yet."

(that third one is me verbatim five years ago, so it might not fit the golden standard of a SPARC model student)