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[-] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I literally just described the scientific method. Sure, it's not the kind of question most scientists would ask, but it's the same scientific method.

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