Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Scientific laws

Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena. The term law has diverse usage in many cases (approximate, accurate, broad, or narrow) across all fields of natural science (physics, chemistry, astronomy, geoscience, biology).

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  1. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough, aged 23, that led to Nobel Prize judges celebrating him as the creator of quantum mechanics.

    29 February 2024

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    Featuring: Fay Dowker, Harry Cliff, Frank Close

     
  2. Laws of Nature

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the quest to find a single over-arching equation that unites all of physics and examines whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.

    19 October 2000

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    Featuring: Mark Buchanan, Frank Close, Nancy Cartwright

     
  3. The Laws of Motion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion – three sentences that explain the movements of everything from planets to ping pong balls.

    3 April 2008

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    Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Raymond Flood, Rob Iliffe