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Striker
How does it work?
My experience was, we were taught to regurgitate and it was called a curriculum. Is this not right and if not, what is it we are taught?
As far as science is concerned, they teach you how to be open-minded and unbiased, how to start from absolute fundamentals and be able to prove every formula you ever need to use, how to devise completely neutral unbiased experiments to test your hypotheses, how it doesn't matter whether or not your hypotheses are correct you still learn something: i.e. finding out your hypotheses are wrong is still a scientific achievement - it's still new knowledge.
"My hypothesis is that things work this other way rather than the way we're taught, and so I've devised an honest experiment that will produce results that will EITHER prove the hypothesis to be correct or incorrect."
Taking your water level hypothesis as an example, the thought process taught to us in higher level science classes is like this:
"The established science says that it should curve at approximately 8 inches per mile squared, but my hypothesis is that this curve doesn't exist, therefore I need to devise an experiment that can determine whether or not a curve of 8 inches per mile squared is really there. To do this I need a device capable of measuring whether or not a curve of 8 inches per mile squared is present in whatever container the water is in, so that I can measure the water honestly. If that equipment detects a curve, then the established science was correct, whereas if that equipment does not detect a curve then we can safely and honestly say that the established science was incorrect. Whatever the outcome is, we will have learned whether or not the established science is correct, therefore the experiment is worth doing."
THAT is science done properly and honestly.
The scientist has no skin in the game. It doesn't matter what the outcome is, something is proven: either the established thought is wrong or it's right, but either way you will have gained knowledge through honest experiment.
Scientists don't make their minds up in advance and then refuse to do honest experiments to test the hypothesis against the established knowledge or use "bad faith" experiments that don't really prove anything like the ones you've put forward so far on this thread.
We're all parrots/mimics.
No, we're not.
I actually had to try and figure out what the potential reality may be amid all of the utter bull that's been implanted into my skull from such a young age to present day. I'll never ficgure out the whole truth of life but just thinking outside the box allows me to see a lot of misinfo/disinfo that was battered into our heads.
No true scientist would ever claim to have the "whole truth of life". The best a real scientist would ever offer you is an explanation of the current ways of looking at any particular conundrum, and how it has been tested to come up with that explanation.
To do that, they need to know it and understand it if it's their area of expertise, or if it is a subject they only have a passing knowledge of they'll admit that and give a caveat in their explanation that this is only how they understand it. After all, there's absolutely no shame in admitting that something is outside your personal knowledge due to it not being your area of expertise. Nobody knows everything about everything.
Curved water level suits you better than flat. No problem.
It's not a case of it suiting me, it's a provable fact.
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