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How To Create Science?
A scientist makes an observation, and notices a problem, or tries to answer the questions of why and how.
Timothy Ferris said in his 1997 book The Whole Shebang- A State-Of-The Universe(s) Report, “Science is not a static body of dogma, to stray from which is to risk one’s epaulets stripped off in a ceremony of banishment from the scientific community. It is a self-correcting system of inquiry, in which errors – of which there are, of course, plenty – are sooner or later detected by experiment or by more careful analysis.”
Also a scientist can make a discovery, or develop a new model. Timothy Ferris also said in the same book, “Through astrophysics, it became possible to go beyond describing how the sky looks and to begin learning how it got to be that way.”
When one makes a discovery; they should formulate a hypothesis and test it by experiments and/or gather necessary data. The data collected is analyzed by the discoverer and interpreted, which must be forumated into a statement called a hypothesis to support the new discovery.
Astronomers that want to go beyond observations in the visual can also do astronomy and astrophysics by the scientific method and can create new scienctific knowledge and/or new discoveries several different ways.
To start the process, use critical thinking and the scientific method to challenge the why and how of existing theories and models to improve upon them.
Alternatively choose an existing known unsolved problem and seek the solution by designing experiments and/or gather data to state a new hypothesis.
The experiments and recorded observations combined with the assembled quantitative and qualitative data of your research and problem solving techniques of critical analytical research, supports the hypothesis and conclusion(s) you are examining or else you have made a new scientific discovery worthy for you to tell the world.
Timothy Ferris said in his 1997 book The Whole Shebang- A State-Of-The Universe(s) Report, “Science is not a static body of dogma, to stray from which is to risk one’s epaulets stripped off in a ceremony of banishment from the scientific community. It is a self-correcting system of inquiry, in which errors – of which there are, of course, plenty – are sooner or later detected by experiment or by more careful analysis.”
Also a scientist can make a discovery, or develop a new model. Timothy Ferris also said in the same book, “Through astrophysics, it became possible to go beyond describing how the sky looks and to begin learning how it got to be that way.”
When one makes a discovery; they should formulate a hypothesis and test it by experiments and/or gather necessary data. The data collected is analyzed by the discoverer and interpreted, which must be forumated into a statement called a hypothesis to support the new discovery.
Astronomers that want to go beyond observations in the visual can also do astronomy and astrophysics by the scientific method and can create new scienctific knowledge and/or new discoveries several different ways.
To start the process, use critical thinking and the scientific method to challenge the why and how of existing theories and models to improve upon them.
Alternatively choose an existing known unsolved problem and seek the solution by designing experiments and/or gather data to state a new hypothesis.
The experiments and recorded observations combined with the assembled quantitative and qualitative data of your research and problem solving techniques of critical analytical research, supports the hypothesis and conclusion(s) you are examining or else you have made a new scientific discovery worthy for you to tell the world.
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Science World BC www.scienceworld.ca a nonprofit organization engaging British Columbians in science and with a quest to inspire future science and technology leadership in BC, had a workshop April 13, 2011 at Cedar Community Secondary School.
It was reported that a larger than normal turnout of high school students showed up to hear about making science more interesting in the classroom. Our honourable past President Dr Bill Weller was there as a speaker and it's true, the more the public learns about science and astronomy the more interested they get into the sciences of viewing, recording, understanding, and unlocking the mysteries of the universe.
We will need more business cards to hand out at this rate as there was a rush by the crowd to get one after his talk.
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