How to Use fundamental law in a Sentence

fundamental law

noun
  • The answer lies in the fundamental laws of physics.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But now humans seem to have broken this fundamental law of the ocean.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Researchers have proven that a fundamental law of physics applies in the quantum realm.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2023
  • Yet many of the fundamental laws of physics do not clearly forbid time from flowing in reverse.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • High-energy physics, with its fundamental laws, is a lot simpler.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • But the fundamental laws defining employees are set by states.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 1 May 2018
  • So a bunch of physicists who claimed to have found a fundamental law of memory recall was catnip to me.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Irony and flux are fundamental laws of the theatrical universe.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Well, Einstein felt very strongly that there should be no randomness in the fundamental laws of physics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The advanced equations are based on the fundamental laws of physics, fluid motion, and chemistry.
    — Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2023
  • The fundamental laws that govern reality apply everywhere and at all times.
    — Big Think, 6 May 2026
  • That’s more of a function of some stickiness in our servo gear train and our power-hungry microprocessor than any fundamental law.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2016
  • To overcome this challenge, many researchers are working to leverage the fundamental laws of physics and develop new methods to detect dark matter.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Since the days of Isaac Newton, the fundamental laws of nature all ultimately reduce to a vital, broad set of equations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Perhaps there is a radical new framework uniting the fundamental laws of nature that disregards all the familiar concepts.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2018
  • And as researchers try to formulate more fundamental laws, the little t evaporates altogether.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2012
  • That diurnal cycle is linked to the giant impact by a fundamental law of physics, the conservation of angular momentum.
    — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
  • In recent centuries, humans have uncovered a tremendous set of details about the fundamental laws and components of nature that make everything up.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The interest in string theory is related to the interest in trying to understand the fundamental laws of nature.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2025
  • This development may lead to more advanced experiments that test the fundamental laws of physics by forcing light to collide directly with the quantum vacuum.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
  • At least one dimension of it might be an emergent phenomenon that arises from its deeper nature rather than being explicitly hardwired into the fundamental laws.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • This odd connection between the two particles is instantaneous, seemingly breaking a fundamental law of the universe.
    — Andreas Muller-University Of South Florida, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Reductionism maintains that everything can be reduced to a few fundamental laws describing the particles that are the basic constituents of matter.
    — Scott Veale, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
  • That all structures that are built out of atoms and their constituents — including molecules, ions, and enzymes — can be described based on the fundamental laws of nature and the component structures that they’re made out of.
    — Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Was some universal principle playing out in the polariton condensate, some fundamental law about systems where energy isn’t conserved?
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Specific minimum wage standards are a complex function of industry, geography and the fundamental law of supply and demand.
    — Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
  • What is that other than an admission that his colleagues had behaved politically, making up instead of interpreting the nation’s fundamental law?
    — Carson Holloway, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • In addition to searching the galaxy for life, the GMT will allow astronomers to study the most ancient eons of the universe, probing the firmament to test our fundamental laws of physics.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2018
  • That all larger structures and processes that occur between those structures, including all chemical reactions, don’t require anything more than those fundamental laws and constituents.
    — Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In Homer, hospitality is a sacred responsibility, a fundamental law of Zeus, the protector of strangers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021

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