Scientific Law

Scientific Law, in science, principles that are taken to be universally applicable. Laws (for instance, Boyle's law and Newton's laws of motion) form the basic theoretical structure of the physical sciences, so that the rejection of a law by the scientific community is an extremely rare event. On occasion a law may be modified, as was the case when Albert Einstein showed that Newton's laws of motion do not apply to objects traveling at speeds close to that of light.