Earth Sciences 2240F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global Catastrophic Risk, Natural Disaster, Natural Hazard
9 Apr 2015
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The idea is that everyone starts with one or more observations, and consciously or unconsciously then forms a hypothesis. Over time, more and more observations will test that hypothesis, and eventually either they suggest your hypothesis was correct (i. e. it passes the tests), or the hypothesis was wrong and you start over. Eventually, a theory will be developed from the successful hypotheses, although testing of that theory never stops. As long as all the tests pass, the theory allows you to make predictions of the end-result of the process being examined. After some very long and always successful testing of the theory, it will be reworded into a law, and generally accepted as the proper explanation of the whole process. Experiment/test: a random sampling of bunnies from each continent finds only friendly bunnies. Publication of my hypothesis: my global research has indicated that bunnies are always friendly, wherever they are found .
