• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s not a distinction generally used by scientists.

    Newton’s laws of motion and Einstein’s theory of special relativity are both sets of equations that describe motion, but they do not explain why gravity obeys an inverse square law, why c is invariant, etc.

    In contrast, Gause’s law of competitive exclusion and Darwin’s theory of natural selection both explain population distributions in nature.