Also, the laws of physics mention only correlation.
I cannot think of a single law of physics that mentions correlation. F = ma. F = G m1 m2/r^2. The wave equation. The diffusion equation. Conservation of energy. Equipartition. Schrödinger’s equation. Boyle’s law. Hooke’s law. Conservation of momentum. Lorentz invariance. No, correlation is not mentioned in any of these. Look in the index of any textbook on physics for “correlation”. I have not performed the experiment, but I predict that if the word appears at all, it will only be in discussions of either (1) how to handle experimental error, or (2) Bell’s inequality.
Unless this is some strange new definition of “mention”, along the lines of “not actually mentioned at all, but implied by a certain philosophy of science not actually held by any substantial number of scientists, variously known as ‘positivism’ or ‘empiricism’, which holds that statements of physical law are nothing more than a compression of experience, and are not assertions about the supposed mechanisms of a supposed real world.”
This makes sense, as it’s all we can really measure.
I take a ruler, and measure the height of my monitor...403mm.
I cannot think of a single law of physics that mentions correlation. F = ma. F = G m1 m2/r^2. The wave equation. The diffusion equation. Conservation of energy. Equipartition. Schrödinger’s equation. Boyle’s law. Hooke’s law. Conservation of momentum. Lorentz invariance. No, correlation is not mentioned in any of these. Look in the index of any textbook on physics for “correlation”. I have not performed the experiment, but I predict that if the word appears at all, it will only be in discussions of either (1) how to handle experimental error, or (2) Bell’s inequality.
Unless this is some strange new definition of “mention”, along the lines of “not actually mentioned at all, but implied by a certain philosophy of science not actually held by any substantial number of scientists, variously known as ‘positivism’ or ‘empiricism’, which holds that statements of physical law are nothing more than a compression of experience, and are not assertions about the supposed mechanisms of a supposed real world.”
I take a ruler, and measure the height of my monitor...403mm.
What correlation did I measure?