Science Awareness

Science is formal or natural and physical (study of non-living stuff) or biological (life sciences). But I find the boundaries among the fields and disciplines of science are getting more and more blurry.

Technology covers everything we do with scientific knowledge--all kinds of tool inventing to make life easier and better. But many question whether technologies have improved matters on the planet, or instead, lead us closer to a cataclysmic ending of life as we know it.

Scientific Method: Scientific knowledge is discovered through scientific methods techniques of observing, as objectively as possible, then collecting and analyzing measurable, empirical evidence through experiments designed to be repeatable. Hypotheses, or proposed explanations for natural patterns and events, are tested and tweaked through controlled experiments, carefully set up to prove or rule out specific explanations by eliminating as many variables as possible. Exact methodologies differ from field to field and include meta-studies of collections of experiments and computer simulations. Gradually, theories grow from such processes, connecting many hypotheses across several fields of study.

To be continued...

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