(March 1, 2016 at 1:25 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(February 29, 2016 at 4:50 pm)paulpablo Wrote: "A scientific law is a statement/description based on repeated experimental observations that describes some aspects of the universe."...This is what a scientific law is. Statements are the things people say. Descriptions are things people say that describe things. So a scientific law is what scientists say, and what they are saying things about is things in this universe. And they are based on experiments/observations.You're right descriptions are after-the-fact accounts. When someone asks, why did x, y, and z happen, they are not asking for an after-the-fact description of x, y, and z. They want to know what thing made x, y, and z happen, regardless of how that thing is described.
Yes, that's a good point. The Big Bang as an answer to "where did the Universe come from," for example, is pretty unsatisfying. If you can explain why there was a Big Bang, then you're getting somewhere.
