The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.

Cormac McCarthy
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Many people believe that the laws of nature cannot be broken. For example, if you try to go faster than the speed of light, you will be shot back into your time machine. But this is not true. The laws of nature can be broken.

Albert Einstein proved this with his theory of relativity. So, what kind of laws are we talking about? Physicists and philosophers have been trying to answer that question ever since. According to some physicists, there are no such things as laws at all.

If you want to do something, just do it and see what happens! According to others, however, laws govern how things work and those laws are absolute. Either way, the point is that the power to constrain us does not change with time. The names change but the power remains the same.

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