Do you have your natural law degree?
The Post Quiz: It's the Law
Back in the Enlightenment, people kept nattering on about 'natural law'. But they hadn't really written enough of those 'natural laws' down. More modern observers have taken care of that: regularities in the world around us are codified into 'laws', 'principles', 'theorems', and the like. And, of course, whoever gets there first has the naming rights. (And they can't sell them to Coca-Cola.)
Match these laws to their authors.
| Author | Law |
- Newton's Law
- Einstein's Law
- Archimedes' Principle
- Bell's Theorem
- Buys Ballot's Law
- Grimm's Law
- Leibniz's Law
- Murphy's Law
- Godwin's Law
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
| - Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
- Energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared.
- As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
- A word beginning a voiceless stop such as /p/ in most Indo-European languages has for its cognate sound an aspirant /f/ in Germanic languages.
- No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics.
- The upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces and it acts in the upward direction at the centre of mass of the displaced fluid.
- There cannot be separate objects or entities that have all their properties in common.
- Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
- Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force.
- In the Northern Hemisphere, if a person stands with his back to the wind, the atmospheric pressure is low to the left, high to the right.
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Post Quiz and Oddities ArchiveDmitri Gheorgheni
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