What are the six processes that are often involved in scientific inquiry?
Science is an activity of man directed at understanding the natural world and the rules that govern its workings. Science never has any eternal truths. Science is never finished with any subject of its investigation. Science is really: “Truth Without Certainty.” Science can be done in many ways but a particularly successful method was developed about mid second millennium CE that involved certain defined steps. These steps are: 1. Use your experience to help you characterize the problem. 2. Form a conjecture (or hypothesis) that explains the observations and measurements of the subject. 3. Deduce a prediction from that explanation (reasoning including logical deduction[30] from the hypothesis). 4. Test – conduct experiments that test the predictions. 5. Publish and subject the above to the scrutiny of your scientific peers. This method took many, many years to formulate.
