what is science?

Answer 1

Science is the search for objective documentable evidence or a means of applying the evidence. Chuckle, many disciplines have attempted to pass themselves off as scientific fields, when in fact they develop their hypothesis on subjective evidence.

Answer 2

Science is mathematical modeling of observation making testable and therefore falsifiable predictions. Then, we look.

All the empirical validation in the world cannot save a theory suffering a single falsification. Said theory is then demoted to being a heuristic - useful but not exact. Newton was demoted by Special and then General Relativity.

General Relativity postulates the Equivalence Princple: All local bodies vacuum free fall along identical (parallel) minimum action trajectories. If you present two lumps that fall differently in vacuum, you break General Relativity. Simple as that.

Science works because it has no exceptions. When one is discovered, it is incorporated. General Relativity demands left and right shoes fall identically. More complete gravitation theories (affine, teleparallel, noncommutative) include GR (EP=true) and allow the shoes to fall differently (EP=false). Somebody should look.

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.pdf
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http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2
surprisingly easy to do.

Answer 3

Science refers to any systematic methodology which attempts to collect accurate information about the shared reality and to model this in a way which can be used to make reliable, concrete and quantitative predictions about events, in line with hypotheses proven by experiment.

Answer 4

This has already been asked today.

Science is any method or system that tries to find out about the occurrences and processes of reality using the scientific method as its tool. It is considered a branch of philosophy but its bit different because of the scientific method.

Answer 5

systematic study of nature & matter is called science.

Answer 6

From the Latin, SCIENTIA = KNOWLEDGE