Kategorier: Alle - evidence - fiction - science - technology

af Julio Quilis 13 år siden

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MENTAL MAP

The document delineates the distinctions between science, science fiction, and pseudoscience. Science is described as a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

MENTAL MAP

MENTAL MAP

Science

Scientific method
1. Purpose state the problem

2. Research. Find out about the topic

3. Hypothesis. Predict the outcome to the problem

4. Experiment. Develop a procedure to test the hypotesis

5. Analysis. Record the results of the experiment

Science attempts to describe the facts as they are.

Discard facts, produces new facts and explains them

Is analytic.

Empiric or factual science

Technology

IPhones

GPS

Bluethoot

Wifi

Social and human science

Sociology

Economy

History

Natural science

Biology

Chemistry

Fisics

Formal science

Logic maths

Science is knowledge about the structure and behaviour of the natural and physical world, based on facts that you can prove, for example by experiments.

Science fiction

The time factor is important
It doesn't need to be proved
It isn't analityc
It isn't real for the moment but in a future it could be
Robots humans
Powerfull weapons
Robot feeling
Robot thinking
Cars flying
Science fiction is something than nowadays is impossible that it happens, but it could be possible in the future when the tecnology advance.

Pseudoscience

Features
They believe on immaterial or supernatural forces
They support theories that don't provide empirical evidence
It can't be proved by a scientific method
Examples
Witchcraft
Astrology
Tarot
Definition
Pseudoscience is a practice which is presented as scientific, but it isn't a valid scientific method.