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Originally Posted by HarryT
A curvature of space-time, if we're being accurate. But so what - it's still "gravity"!
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To be super-pedantic, we have a more recent model of the phenomena that we call gravity - where we model it as curvature of space-time - which fits known observations better than our previous models.
But to say that gravity
is our current model is a mistake - the map is not the territory.
Having said that, Havnon's idea about laws being analagous to theories - perhaps theories about social engineering to reach the optimal outcome - is interesting. It leads to the idea that they should not be seen as sacrosanct, but rather our best attempt to date at regulating society's conflicting interests.