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Scientific method
The science is a set of knowledge in some area, acquired through the years and history. The
science is the reason that nowadays we have electric energy, antibiotics, nuclear fission and
fusion and more things, that make our life more comfortable. The science permit that the
humanity know and understand the environment and nature. Since a person started to see with
detail a plant, the science was born. The sciences, and specific the natural sciences like biology,
chemistry and physics, are based on the scientific method. It is a series of steps that can made
us know the exactly parts of all, the process of some event, or the reason for an important
change. Know the scientific method is important for all people because if we know it, we can use
The base of scientific method is the observation, so the first step is the observation. If you want
to know something, you need watch carefully its parts. Many times is necessary search for
previous information for make a better observation. The second step is make a hypothesis. It
means that you need invent a tentative description of the event that you observed. The scientific
method is a lineal process, it means that you need complete a step for make the next. The
hypothesis is very important because it is your interpretation, your forma of see the event. In
many situation your circumstances and previous knowledge condition your hypothesis. In the
third step you use the hypothesis to make predictions about the event. Depends on the event,
complicated, sometimes you need involve yourself in the event, or take only a specific part of it,
or change some conditions and make mare observations about how it affects the process. If
your predictions are not correct, you need change them, and repeat the experiment. This is
important because another characteristic of scientific method is that it is based on trial and error.
You need comet many mistakes and change your hypothesis many times for get the real
knowledge. Analyze the result, change the hypothesis and repeat the test is the fifth step.
When your prediction are sure and they makes reality in all circumstances, you can propose a
theory. A theory is your explication of the event with proofs. It means that if someone want repeat
your experiment, he or she will obtain the same results. The sixth step is share your results with
all the scientific community. If your theory is tested for other scientists around the world, your
theory became in a law. A law is the certain behavior of an event, also you can put your name
in a law. There are theories that with the actual technologic develop cannot be tested, so they
The scientific method is an important tool for get knowledge. It is a process that put in practice
your ability for observation and deduct. This is the scientific method in little steps. This is the way
that many important scientists followed. If we know this process, we can use it in daily life and
understand better our environment and makes changes for improve it.