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The cumulative work of many scientists can often be summarized as theories or laws. how is a theory different from a law

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A law is something in science that can be proved through experimenting. When the experiment is done properly, the same outcome will be achieved every time. A law does not attempt to explain why something is the way it is, it only states it.

A theory is an idea that has a large amount of scientific data backing it and is the accepted answer by most scientists, but there is no way to experiment on a scientific theory. A theory will never be able to become a law. A theory explains what it is describing.

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