is a scientific fact something that is a absolute and unchanging?

Answer 1

No, a scientific fact is something that can be verified by other people by following a described procedure. If the fact is more closely examined or the conditions change, the fact may be reformatted. Largest and clearest example is Newton's Laws of Motion which are still perfectly good if you stay within the limits of his times. It is when you add large long term accelerations, great speeds, etc., that they breakdown and Relativity is required to explain the motion.

Answer 2

Scientific fact is what we call the current accepted laws on which we base our work on when we do reasearch. I say "accepted" because until these facts are proven wrong they are absolute. For example we know that water boils at 100 degrees celcius at sea level. This is a scientific fact that does not change. However, scientists accepted that the world was flat until scientists like Galileo came along and prooved that the world was in fact elliptical in shape approximatlely a sphere. So at the moment only the most extreme hypothesis can change. Theories are mostly fact or accepted as fact to make work easier. An example of this are rays of light. These rays do not exactly travel straightly but to make certain calculations easy we accept that they travel in straight lines.

Answer 3

There is nothing in the World of science that is absolute.
Science uses formulas and equations to describe the Physical Universe. However none of these are absolute.
They are just approximations.
And some are just imaginary,trying to represent reality in imaginary numbers and terms.
So Basically science only guesses and examines facts probabibalistically and not deterministically.

As far as Humans are concerned , they are still Humans(its a fact) no matter how Science has evolved.

Answer 4

There are very few absolutes and most of what is in physics tend to have quite a few....example: the speed of light being a constant. String theory allows for this to be altered in other dimensions around us and German scientist have used quantum tunneling to accelerate photons faster than the speed of light. So, be aware of absolutes....for there are very few indeed.

Answer 5

is this a 'tree falls in the forest' kinda question?

if a 'fact' is a datum, then no, facts don't change. if it is a 'widely held belief', e.g. the earth is flat, then yes facts are quite fluid.

Webster says "a piece of information presented as having objective reality " but there is that word "Objective"... its hard to find something that isn't distorted by "personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations".

Or worse... by bad measurement.

Answer 6

No, Human DNA is a scientific fact that changes with evolution.

Answer 7

It is regarded as that which has been verified to stand the test of experimentation and observation, and stands until it can be shown/proved otherwise. Consistent with what theory predicts and has been shown/proven as such over time.

Answer 8

No, it is the best known answer for a given problem that has so far never been proven wrong.