THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
I remember when I was a child , about 8years , I used to think of building my own helicopter.
In my head, I will practically bring to birth the image of the helicopter with the interior switch and everything I could think of .
I realized since I had never seen what it looked like below the dashboard of the helicopter and didn’t even know what all the gauges and indicators on the dashboard represented. My thoughts drifted towards how I was going to make the helicopter move.
Because I know I could connect cells to a motor and cause it to wheel , I thought of how I could connect a lot of cells to cause the “fan” (as I used to call it) on the helicopter to move.
My helicopter was in the form of wood , because at that time I barely understood how metal, as strong as it was could be carved to such a shape.
Everyday I found new ways in my head to cause my helicopter to conform with the idea of what it really was.
Another scenario would be how I thought to myself at the age of 6 that people had been becoming through some magical means into our room and then into our TV.
I thought for many days how this could be. My father wont allow me touch his electronic gadgets because he presumed I was too touchy, but yet still I succeeded in touching and turning the back of the TV to find the portal through which they minimized and went into our TV
As time passed I gave up , until one day when my father mistakenly touched the aerial out of its position and all the images on our TV went out blank.
I was surprised and thought of what had happened for many days. I later concluded the aerial must have something to do with the images on the TV.
Time taught me bit by bit the rest I needed to know.
As funny as these stories may seem, there are a few ideas I will like to draw from them and enlighten you.
Revisiting these past events now (14 years later), I realize whatever idea or thought I ever conceived , I tried to make sense out of it using my knowledge or whats more my understanding.
Apart from my understanding, my beliefs seemed to tell me what was possible and, and what wasn’t.
Now the whole principle and idea of science as a study is defined by the scientific method.
What is the scientific method?
Conception
Science is first a conceptualization of idea.
The birth of a new idea, could be in many as these three forms; emulation, a could be better and a problem.
Before I continue with the conceptualization concept, I will want to clarify something.
Science as we all know it, can be defined in many ways……but as far as we can all understand, we would all agree is a search for something. A search to find the truth , truth in what ?
It’s a search to find truth in our every conception.
Conception is the first and foremost instigator of the whole science process and without it there is no search at all. Since If you don’t see something could be emulated, or conceive a problem from tops of your reasoning you think worthy of solving ,then there will be no science at all, since no search will begin.
So we can then define science as the search for truth in every conception and the scientific process, formulates and tests the validity of this conception.
Noticing and drawing conclusions
The scientific method.
Before any conception is made there is one stage in the scientific method that causes a beginning . Our ability to notice…..to become aware of…..to become conscious of something. Noticing depends ones ability to observe and draw meaning from the objet being observed
The two means your ability to watch something carefully or pay close attention to something and realize what it is that is happening. In actual fact until you are able to notice , there will be no conception and no search for truth. I will have no reason to search for which portal the people on my TV took into the TV until I noticed it was awkward to have real people on my TV without knowing how they got there.
There is always a probability of a misconception, yet until we notice , until we doubt there will be nothing to prove
Therefore the first stage of the scientific method will be our ability to notice
I could possibly list the whole scientific method I know of , but I believe when one has the ability notice, something is started and that is what is most important.
Drawing meaning from what is being observed
Further after noticing and doing further investigations and experimentation , one comes to the last stage of the process where he falls on his own experience to make meaning of the data gathered. If not even so we are all prone to using our personal experience, in terms of knowledge ,beliefs and perceptions. (during the time I was thinking about building my helicopter , even in forming the image in my head, I didn’t see how a metal as hard as it was could be forged into such a shape, so I decided to use wood. Now this is where the fault lies, because then, even if the people the conclusion of the test of the validity of the conception is shared with, have the same perceptions and beliefs then a lie will become truth.
More can be said of the scientific process but I wish to drift from elaborating on the process (.....suggest links and books to elaborate further and get to a more intricating of what the scientific should be...)
“Scientific method is not a recipe: it requires intelligence, imagination, and creativity. In this sense, it is not a mindless set of standards and procedures to follow, but is rather an ongoing cycle, constantly developing more useful, accurate and comprehensive models and methods
Scientific thought therefore only proceeds to guide reasoning and questioning , in order to help us understand the principles of nature in a more exact detail”.
If science is to help us understand the physical principles of nature, an understanding which we can only conceive through the non-physical, then there is something yet unexplored of the scientific method.
The scientific method when fully realised will be an eye through which all principles can be unified, from which all understanding can be drawn. The spaces in between and from the distances where thoughts ponders(which is the non-physical), a conception is birthed , and an understanding of this conception is drawn from the physical.
This means as long as our physical barriers and perceptions exist we will refuse to see the whole truth that lies therein in our conception,
The scientific method consists in splitting up everything into minute divisions and parts and to examine each division and part separately, but its synthesis is not the perception of a thing as a whole, it is only the summation of its parts. That something which gives the quality of wholeness always escapes through the meshes of the scientific net~Subodh Kumar Misra
The scientific method will undoubtedly continue to evolve , but the end to which it must come to, is what I wish we all, should explore further.
What will then cause this evolution to be whole, and cause the creation of a complete principle that helps us see the whole truth in every conception.
These are my thoughts , whats yours?
References...
Wikipedia
Suggestions to further read
Science and common sense
The Scientific method
I remember when I was a child , about 8years , I used to think of building my own helicopter.
In my head, I will practically bring to birth the image of the helicopter with the interior switch and everything I could think of .
I realized since I had never seen what it looked like below the dashboard of the helicopter and didn’t even know what all the gauges and indicators on the dashboard represented. My thoughts drifted towards how I was going to make the helicopter move.
Because I know I could connect cells to a motor and cause it to wheel , I thought of how I could connect a lot of cells to cause the “fan” (as I used to call it) on the helicopter to move.
My helicopter was in the form of wood , because at that time I barely understood how metal, as strong as it was could be carved to such a shape.
Everyday I found new ways in my head to cause my helicopter to conform with the idea of what it really was.
Another scenario would be how I thought to myself at the age of 6 that people had been becoming through some magical means into our room and then into our TV.
I thought for many days how this could be. My father wont allow me touch his electronic gadgets because he presumed I was too touchy, but yet still I succeeded in touching and turning the back of the TV to find the portal through which they minimized and went into our TV
As time passed I gave up , until one day when my father mistakenly touched the aerial out of its position and all the images on our TV went out blank.
I was surprised and thought of what had happened for many days. I later concluded the aerial must have something to do with the images on the TV.
Time taught me bit by bit the rest I needed to know.
As funny as these stories may seem, there are a few ideas I will like to draw from them and enlighten you.
Revisiting these past events now (14 years later), I realize whatever idea or thought I ever conceived , I tried to make sense out of it using my knowledge or whats more my understanding.
Apart from my understanding, my beliefs seemed to tell me what was possible and, and what wasn’t.
Now the whole principle and idea of science as a study is defined by the scientific method.
What is the scientific method?
Conception
Science is first a conceptualization of idea.
The birth of a new idea, could be in many as these three forms; emulation, a could be better and a problem.
Before I continue with the conceptualization concept, I will want to clarify something.
Science as we all know it, can be defined in many ways……but as far as we can all understand, we would all agree is a search for something. A search to find the truth , truth in what ?
It’s a search to find truth in our every conception.
Conception is the first and foremost instigator of the whole science process and without it there is no search at all. Since If you don’t see something could be emulated, or conceive a problem from tops of your reasoning you think worthy of solving ,then there will be no science at all, since no search will begin.
So we can then define science as the search for truth in every conception and the scientific process, formulates and tests the validity of this conception.
Noticing and drawing conclusions
The scientific method.
Before any conception is made there is one stage in the scientific method that causes a beginning . Our ability to notice…..to become aware of…..to become conscious of something. Noticing depends ones ability to observe and draw meaning from the objet being observed
The two means your ability to watch something carefully or pay close attention to something and realize what it is that is happening. In actual fact until you are able to notice , there will be no conception and no search for truth. I will have no reason to search for which portal the people on my TV took into the TV until I noticed it was awkward to have real people on my TV without knowing how they got there.
There is always a probability of a misconception, yet until we notice , until we doubt there will be nothing to prove
Therefore the first stage of the scientific method will be our ability to notice
I could possibly list the whole scientific method I know of , but I believe when one has the ability notice, something is started and that is what is most important.
Drawing meaning from what is being observed
Further after noticing and doing further investigations and experimentation , one comes to the last stage of the process where he falls on his own experience to make meaning of the data gathered. If not even so we are all prone to using our personal experience, in terms of knowledge ,beliefs and perceptions. (during the time I was thinking about building my helicopter , even in forming the image in my head, I didn’t see how a metal as hard as it was could be forged into such a shape, so I decided to use wood. Now this is where the fault lies, because then, even if the people the conclusion of the test of the validity of the conception is shared with, have the same perceptions and beliefs then a lie will become truth.
More can be said of the scientific process but I wish to drift from elaborating on the process (.....suggest links and books to elaborate further and get to a more intricating of what the scientific should be...)
“Scientific method is not a recipe: it requires intelligence, imagination, and creativity. In this sense, it is not a mindless set of standards and procedures to follow, but is rather an ongoing cycle, constantly developing more useful, accurate and comprehensive models and methods
Scientific thought therefore only proceeds to guide reasoning and questioning , in order to help us understand the principles of nature in a more exact detail”.
If science is to help us understand the physical principles of nature, an understanding which we can only conceive through the non-physical, then there is something yet unexplored of the scientific method.
The scientific method when fully realised will be an eye through which all principles can be unified, from which all understanding can be drawn. The spaces in between and from the distances where thoughts ponders(which is the non-physical), a conception is birthed , and an understanding of this conception is drawn from the physical.
This means as long as our physical barriers and perceptions exist we will refuse to see the whole truth that lies therein in our conception,
The scientific method consists in splitting up everything into minute divisions and parts and to examine each division and part separately, but its synthesis is not the perception of a thing as a whole, it is only the summation of its parts. That something which gives the quality of wholeness always escapes through the meshes of the scientific net~Subodh Kumar Misra
The scientific method will undoubtedly continue to evolve , but the end to which it must come to, is what I wish we all, should explore further.
What will then cause this evolution to be whole, and cause the creation of a complete principle that helps us see the whole truth in every conception.
These are my thoughts , whats yours?
References...
Wikipedia
Suggestions to further read
Science and common sense
The Scientific method
