Is a scientific fact something that is absolute or unchanging? Explain?

Answer 1

Science comes up with ideas about of its previous knowlege to explain something new about the Physical world. if these ideas are to represent a natural phenomena by theorethical formulation,then they are tested thru experimentation. This is basically the natural path of the scientific method which originated from any one of our ancestors with some common sense.
If the observer of the experiment is able to match the results with the prediction in the theory ,The results are then proving the theory to be correct.
However is it? Scientific fact are always open to question until another theory and tests prove other wise.
There is no absolute in Science; "all our equations are only appoximations."

Answer 2

"Facts" in science refer to specific events that can be directly observed, like, "My computer screen is displaying a Yahoo! ANSWERS window as I'm writing this". This, taken together with an a list of specific disambiguating information such as who I am, which of my computers is being discussed, and what time it is, make this proposition a "fact". Of course, I could be lying or mistaken, but if I'm not, it is classified as a fact. You don't even have to know whether it's true or not for it to be a fact; there are many unknown facts. In the philosophical school of thought known as "realism", such facts are considered absolute and unchanging. With the advent of quantum mechanics, however, not all scientists are realists since QM offers serious challenges to this world view (wiki Schrodinger Cat)

Contrast this with "theory". Theories are purely human inventions that attempt to organize many facts using general rules. Theories can never graduate into facts since they are categorically different sorts of propositions. Most people don't understand this and assume that theories can be "proved", and thereby become facts. In general, there are an infinite number of predictions a theory can make. Since it's impossible to test them all, one can never prove a theory at all.

Answer 3

A fact is something definite and it should not change, however, as we learn more about the universe, at times some of the things that we thought were facts are found not to be facts. For example, at one time people thought that the smallest particles that make up atoms are protons, neutrons and electrons. So that was considered a fact. But then people discovered that these particles were made up of smaller particles.

Answer 4

Scientific fact is an oxymoron. Science does not prove anything, it simply fails to disprove it.

Science is continually evolving. Take theories on light: they have changed from wave theories to particle theories, to photonic theories and so forth.

Answer 5

If I understand your question, something that is absolute and changing is dependent on the frame of reference.