Sentences with phrase «theory against observations»

Furthermore, the team tested the theory against observations of NASA's 34 - year - old Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which appears about 400,000 kilometres away from its expected location in the outer solar system.

The 100 stories here capture scientific curiosity in all its stages: provocative early results, long - sought confirmations, and many steps in the iterative process of testing theory against observation and vice versa.

Look at observations, make up theories, test theories against observations and experimentation, adjust theory, test, etc etc..

Not exact matches

Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted observation and direct verification of theories by the «facts.»

Scientific models lead to theories which can be tested against observations.

It is a fundamental requirement of scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

The universe is home to countless galaxies more massive than the Milky Way, which should, in theory, be bursting with star formation, but they aren't — an observation that goes against most current models of the universe and star formation.

Again, that's central to the purpose of the scientific enterprise: we refine and improve our theories for a set of observations by proposing multiple theories and setting one against the other.

If it does not, throw it out, construct a new theory and test that one against the observations (basic scientific method).

This mere speculation (or near theory) is untested against validated methods and verified observation in the real world, it is only tested in a poorly made computer generated virtual world.

Models, like all scientific theory, have to be tested against real - world observations.

We have this fun little system called the scientific method by which theories are supposed to make predictions that actually come to fruition, tested against observation and then maybe its legitimized.

When so many different arguments support and no observations or plausible arguments speak against the understanding, it's natural that essentially every scientist of applicable specialization agrees that the theory of radiative energy transfer is correct including people like Lindzen and Spencer.

As with everything in science, you have a theory / model from which you make predictions, then check it against observations.

In my experience, when scientists have a theory which they believe to have a lot of predictive power and only a few obvious numbers of practical importance to test it against, they look intensely for less obvious practically unimportant observations to test it against.

Many of the greatest scientists fought against the tide of accepted wisdom until their observations, experiments, arguments and theories were accepted and, in turn, became the consensus.