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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Hypothesis: adding this part or doing that thing will make it do what I want.

Experiment: do that change and see if it does the thing you want.

If it doesn't do what you want, go back to hypothesis step. If that's not science, idk what is.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You don't know what is. Science isn't do something and see if it works, it's about explaining why something works. Scientific experiments only disprove a hypothesis or can't disprove. Eventually a collection of results can be evidence of proof, but it's not actually proof.

    You're more in engineering of wanting to do a thing and finding a way to accomplish that thing based on the current understanding of the relative science.

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