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Re:100-year-old physics problem has been solved by contravariant on Thursday June 22, 2017 @08:47PM (#14616416)
How exactly would you distinguish between 'proven' fundamental and merely 'considered' fundamental?

I mean, sure, some laws like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle can be proven mathematically from the axioms of a theory, but how exactly would that make it more fundamental than a law that is considered an axiom itself?

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Re:100-year-old physics problem has been solved by odonnellryan on Friday June 23, 2017 @03:10AM (#14617485)
I'm not too knowledgeable in these things, but I'd guess it'd really just depend on the same things everything else does in science: supporting data.

Certain things have an immense amount of supporting data.

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