totoro;176379 Wrote: > Science is not done by people randomly trying stuff with no idea why it > would or wouldn't work.
The scientific method has several steps: 1. Observe some aspect of the universe. 2. Invent a tentative description, called a hypothesis, that is consistent with what you have observed. 3. Use the hypothesis to make predictions. 4. Test those predictions by experiments or further observations and modify the hypothesis in the light of your results. My objection to some of the discussions I've read to date is that people skip the first step, meaning that they don't listen for themselves. Instead there is a tendency to doubt observations because people aren't offering up reasonable hypotheses. The fact that there aren't good theories doesn't invalidate the observation of an experimental result. Just my two cents. ---Gary -- GaryB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GaryB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
