What is science?Why can scientific theories be continuously overthrown?

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Original title: What is science?Why can scientific theories be continuously overthrown?

Many people do not have comprehensive understanding of science. It is believed that science is correct. In fact, science is not equal to correctness. It is just the way human cognitive world!

What is science?To put it simply, science is the law of nature that people come by the continuous observation of the surrounding world, and then continuously verify and improve this law. This is destined to have no end to science.”” “!

What’s the meaning?

For a popular example, you see that a swan is white, and the two are just white … and see that all the swans are white, so you come to the conclusion that “the swan is white”.It’s science!

But obviously “the swan is white” is not necessarily true, no matter how many swans you find, as long as you one day you only find that there is a swan that is black (maybe you can never find it, but theoretically, in theory, theoreticallyThere is always the possibility of discovery), and the theory of “swan is white” has been overturned!

This is why “science can never be the truth, but it is always waiting to be falsified!”

This is the case for any scientific theory, it can also be said that any scientific theory will be limited!When scientists overthrow a theory, they cannot be said to be overthrown accurately, nor can they say that the original theory is wrong, but there are limitation. We have discovered a more universal theory at a better level!

For example, Newton’s classic mechanics is just a special case of Einstein’s theory of relativity in the low -speed world. A approximity value, we will not say that classic mechanics is wrong (strictly speaking, it is wrong to be true), because you can’t ask for anyway, you can’t ask for it.In the New era, you can take into account the state of movement and expression under the speed of sub -light. They can only summarize the laws of nature through daily low -speed exercise!Scientists such as Einstein break through the limitations of low -speed exercise!

In the same way, the once -hearted statement is also scientific strictly. Although we now know that the earth is incorrect, as mentioned at the beginning, science has never been the same as correct. Humans a thousand years ago also observed the surrounding world through scientific ways to observe the surrounding world.The theory of the earth’s heart, then it is science!

Now that we only have the limitations of human cognition more than a thousand years ago, we know that the heart is incorrect!Limitations will be available in any era!

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