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How do all the atoms or molecules in gasses know Boyle's law, and why do none of them disobey it?

There may be instances of ones that do disobey, but I just haven't heard of, or have forgotten them.

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  • 2 years ago

    the fun thing about science is that there is always a chance that something will be disproven! every law, rule, function we know through science has a fail state, otherwise it is pseudoscience.

    "Scientific laws summarize the results of experiments or observations, usually within a certain range of application"(wikipedia), which basically means that the behavior is so ubiquitous that every single experiment thus far has shown it to be true (and laws might specifically be modeled with math? i forget), and so it is about as close to objective truth as is possible.

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    2 years ago

    Maybe the law is based on what the molecules do naturally.

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