Terms
A human effort to discover how the physical world works by making measurements, observations, and carrying out experiments.
What is science?
Well-accepted pattern in data.
What is scientific law?
Scientific hypothesis that have been discarded as a result or peer review, not real.
Most important to scientists.
What is scientific theories and laws?
Information needed to answer a question.
Well-tested and widely accepted hypothesis.
What is scientific theory?
Scientific hypothesis that is considered to be true.
What is reliable science?
Name a reliable science.
Who is (varies)?
A possible explanation of what they observe, in nature or in the results of their experiments, that they can test.
What is scientific hypothesis?
The first thing that has to be done to start your experiment.
What is Identify a problem?
Involves scientists openly publishing details of the methods and models they used.
What is peer review?
Collect data and develop theories, models, and laws about how nature works.
What is scientist?
An approximate representation or simulation of a system being studied.
What is model?
The answer you get at the end of any experiment.
What is result?
The chance that a given event will occur or that a given projection will be valid.
What is probability?
Name a unreliable science.
What is (varies)?
Scientific hypothesis that are not yet considered reliable.
What is tentative/frontier science?
What is experiment?
A well-tested and widely accepted description of what we find happening repeatedly in nature in the same way.
What is Scientific law/law of nature?
"Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones in a house."
Who wrote this?
Who is Henri Poincare?