Players in Second Life break plenty of physical laws, flying and teleporting around their virtual world and crafting made-to-order bodies and buildings.
Some of the specialty arrows could also be considered over-the-top in a world where physical laws, however futuristic in their application, still rule.
Physical laws, he insisted, are the same in all inertial systems.
Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1916, offering a description of gravity, space and time that transformed how scientists understand the physical laws governing the known universe.
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He expressed for the first time accurate laws of motion, the origins of colours, the existence and effects of gravity, and the fact that the same physical laws hold true throughout the universe.
Andrew Lo, of MIT's Sloan School of Management, was fond of pointing out that in the physical sciences three laws can explain 99% of behaviour, whereas in finance 99 laws can explain at best 3% of behaviour.
There was something spectral about the sight of the old bridge at Mostar - as though the normal laws of the physical universe did not apply to it.
It has been obvious for centuries that if human beings are made entirely of physical stuff, and all physical stuff simply follows the laws of physics, then there is no room in human action for any causal power other than the motion of matter.
"The language in the laws against gambling aren't specific to physical dollars, " says Kane.
We are so used to our physical space that we often assume that its qualities, laws, rules, and peculiarities are true everywhere.
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Our laws going back to the Magna Carta and before are aimed at a physical world and not a digital one.
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