What is Scientific? And what is not? A scientific study was
often contrasted with the study of the social sciences. It was
said that the norms of the social sciences were not as rigid as
the laws of the sciences. The sciences (i.e. the natural
science) could have laws which would hold true for all times,
which would not be affected by the researchers biases and could
be verified by objective tests. Over the last few decades this
notion is loosing validity rapidly. Post-relativity studies, it
has been asserted that even the most scientific of disciplines,
physics could involve unstable laws. In fact Einstein's
relativity has in effect proved the premises of Newton's theory
incorrect. The laws of science then, are not universal, at least
not in terms of time. A deeper look at the Newton-Einstein
controversy would reveal that the two great physicists were in
fact not even attempting to explain the same reality. The
universality of space also is thus defunct. What then can be
called 'scientific'? Or should we sli