2019-11-11|Law of Gravity versus Theory of Relativity
Dr. Barry C. Barish
I watched your lecture entitled "Einstein, Black Holes and Cosmic Chirps" on YouTube's Fermilab channel.
Now that Einstein's Theory of Relativity has been proven again and again and again, especially as you point out in slide "GPS: General Relativity in Everyday Life", would it be appropriate to promote the Theory of Relativity to the Law of Relativity? After all, Newton's Law of Gravity has turned out to have problems like the perihelion precession of Mercury. So, the line seems to be grey, not black and white.
Theory
Law
A scientific theory summarizes a hypothesis or group of hypotheses that have been supported with repeated testing.
A scientific law generalizes a body of observations.
