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Who Wrote the Laws of Nature?

Context with Brad Harris by Brad Harris

Jul 6, 202623:43History

Why do we say a stone "obeys the law" of gravity? What is a "law" of nature, anyway? The idea that nature has laws — universal, mathematical, binding — was born in the seventeenth century, when Descartes and Newton assum...

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Who Wrote the Laws of Nature? is an episode from Context with Brad Harris by Brad Harris. Why do we say a stone "obeys the law" of gravity? What is a "law" of nature, anyway? The idea that nature has laws — universal, mathematical, binding...

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Published Jul 6, 2026, 23:43 long, audio available.