Are you sure everything is stable, maybe, just maybe physics changes just to keep things interesting. I don't mean the science of physics which clearly changes as it follows every trend and fashion, the gobshites think up for it. [Just as the political gobshites disburse the taxes they steal from us so other gobshites feed on all manner of callings to live on the leavings they can talk the political gobshites into giving them.] No we are talking here of the real physical world and the laws it operates under, these I suspect are not as constant, as the Physicist strives to demonstrate, but are continually evolving in response to the preponderance of current belief.
Of course belief is a bit difficult as one person with a strongly held belief may overwhelm the more tenuously held beliefs of the rest of the world, hence Christopher Columbus [not an Englishman so probably Christophe] was able to force the slightly curved, but essentially flat world into becoming a globe, at least most of it. I live next to the marshes which stretch absolutely flatly about 14 miles to Yarmouth, which is clearly visible on a fine day and is about 6 miles beyond the horizon so the experts tell me! I expect they must have made an error somewhere. Horizons only occur at sea, probably 20 or 30 miles away, so you can see across the channel then ground level to ground level?
What is even more unlikely is that lots of physical laws are maintained by small gods, who like sacrifices before they allow their particular law to be functional,"ARRGH no the tiny nut is not going to undo with the big spanner, at least not until daddy has skinned his knuckles and sacrificed some blood to the small god in control of this particular areas friction/stiction laws". Or is it just that blood is a better lubricant than WD40, been wasting a lot of science there ever since somebody coined the phrase "Blood sweat and tears" to describe our best approach to bending the physical world to our will. Or did they just have a more perceptive mind in looking at the real causes of pain, and so come up with some of the more acceptable sacrificial bodily fluids for everyday use. Don't reject others there are plenty of other small gods around, some with some very seedy antecedents, the green man for instance.
Oh by the way I refer to them all as small gods, a family thing, others have noted the existence of tool vampires, and our ancestors were strong on sprites, spirits, fairies, elfs, dwarves, goblins, and in particular if any sort of machinery is involved GREMLINS. My preference for the term small god is because they like being worshipped, they like sacrifice, particularly minor blood sacrifice, and they absolutely hate it when people refuse to believe in them Oh and they tend to be invisible most of the time, and not there most of the time, probably attending some rave somewhere, unless you particularly don't need them. Then they turn up without fail, if you listen carefully in that fraction of a second just before you hit your thumb with the hammer you can sometimes hear them giggle offensively, and puff a bit as they push the hammer sideways during it's swing.
Anyway back to the subject in hand, Science laws of:
Newton thought he'd cracked it until Einstein came along, but E. had enough belief in his physical laws to see off a whole universe of non believers, but the chinks are beginning to appear, so expect some major changes to physics's underlying laws soon.
The Arctic continent, somebody believed he could drive a submarine under the ice across the north pole so no more arctic continent, nobody could be bothered to believe he couldn't, course when he tried it at the south pole he met a host of disbelievers[ there is science grant money in antarctic research] so he got a bruised nose, and now we don't even have a polar ice cap anymore just a large pond. Beware global warming, this belief can melt ice even if the weather gets colder. The Romans in Britain had vineyards about 100 miles further north than is currently viable, course that was a cycle not at all like global warming, not even a little bit.
Have you noticed how athletes keep getting faster, most world records get broken each year, or is it just that seconds are getting shorter, lbs are getting lighter or heavier and is gravity weaker or stronger than it used to be, our dog food has just been reduced to 15 kilo sacks used to be 20 and before that 25 , all in response to legislation aimed at making it possible for people to lift things, in my youth I worked on a farm picking up comb sacks of corn, about 18 stone of wheat, that is 2 1/4 cwt [252 lbs] and a cwt is about 50 kilos, so the average worker was expected to lift and carry combs but now is only capable of 0.13 times as much, of course in the new values world it sounds so much better , I lifted 15 CORR! (one of my uncles many years ago used to carry flour sacks up a ladder without getting into a sweat, they weighed in at about 22-24 stone).
All is possible once people start to believe that a thing is possible then we are on the way to it happening, just as rumours if propagated strongly enough become true by changing the real world, so the laws on which we base our perception of the real world can be altered, and SF writers have a scary position, if people start to believe then that's the future!
Science said we would run out of oil before the millennium, Joe public firmly did not believe them.
Science said there was not enough bandwidth for millions of mobile phones, the mass did not believe this.
Few, if any believed in cheap supersonic flight, the last few Concords are grounded their future in doubt.
Scientists constantly demonstrate what may or may not happen, and physics generally kicks them in the goolies probably by changing the way the rules operate.