• Question: Which do you think is more accurate; the theory of relativity or the chaos theory?

    Asked by helenenglandrox to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      relativity is full of very precise numbers and works very well for anything we can measure. Chaos theory is based upon large numbers of things and is really more of a statistical approximation.

      I would go for relativity on this one, although they can’t really be used for the same things.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      They’ve both been tested, but they haven’t completely explained everything. I know this because they are still called ‘theories’ – this is a scientific convention that until something is proven 100% accurate it’s called a theory. Once we know for certain that it’s accurate, it becomes a ‘law’.

      As for which one is more accurate: they don’t try to answer the same problem so you can’t really compare them.

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