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by EPWN3D 202 days ago
They're Newton's laws of universal gravitation, not a theory. The difference matters because Newton's laws describe what happens in nature without positing a mechanism. Einstein provided the mechanism via general relativity, which is a theory.
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Sure, but newtons’s laws also are far from universal, he just didn’t have the data to know it at the time.