Scientific Method
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Warren, Z.
Original Research
This feature is the first in a new series that we're calling the 'Scientific Method'. It will detail all the steps in the scientific method, allowing those of our readers unfamiliar with the workings of science to become fully fledged scientists in their own right.
The first stage is to make an observation about the universe around you (or beyond as the original research on this page shows). Indeed, the reason this series was created was because we observed a decided lack of scientific rigour in the community alongside numerous messages asking us how to become a scientist in the first place.
There are many observation techniques available to you; you could use your eyes as the picture above suggests, or any of your other senses. You could build a machine to do it for you and many scientists have a taste for giving these machines extra senses with specialist recording equipment. Alternately, many scientists like to deduce their observations logically and occasionally mathematically. All these are acceptable.
Now get out there and start observing things! Do I have to do everything myself?!
Observation
The nature of reality, the multiverse and beyond; a preliminary study into everything.
Abstract
Humanity has always wondered what lay just around the corner, beyond our world, solar system and now universe. The SJIS likes to stay one step ahead and so its scientists wonder what lies beyond our multiverse. This paper is a brief overview of the preliminary findings of an expedition throughout all of reality. Its main outcome is that there should definitely be more funding made available for SJIS projects.
Introduction
Currently the best (and only) theory to explain background radiation, and the origin of the universe, is known as inflation theory (Warren, 2012). It states that reality is filled with an energy field that fluctuates leading to peaks and troughs (Warren, 2012). When one of these troughs falls below a certain level, much of the energy within it converts into matter (known as the big bang), and so a new universe is formed (Warren, 2012). Our universe, therefore, is likely only one of an infinite number of universes, each with potentially different laws and variables governing it (Warren, 2012).
While this is very interesting to your average scientist working with their mediocre science and pondering the existence of the multiverse, fully-formed SJIS scientists have been wondering what happens when an energy peak rises as high as these potentially universe forming troughs drop. Could there be some kind of alternaverse? (Or differverse? Or perhaps ununiverse is the correct term? Or should that be iverse?)
Methodology
It is obvious to anyone that while trapped within this (rather limited) universe only the tiniest scraps of evidence could be discovered and so would require a lot of logical inferences and messy mathematical equations before a paper could be generated. While this may be more than enough for the ‘Sciences’ and ‘Natures’ of this world, it would, by no means, satisfy the insatiable desire for absolute evidence and explosions that the SJIS and its readers have.
To escape the confines of this universe a spacetime ship of incredible power and subtlety was required. As no such quest had ever been undertaken in the history of the universe a radically new design had to be created with nothing to base it on. On the positive side this avoids the need to reference previous work and pay royalties for the use of patented inventions.
A basic overview of the ship (named Wanderer) can be seen in figure 1. Note that all the key systems (including the living area) of the ship were contained within a sphere of sjisium-imaginerium alloy, which itself was contained within a complexihedron made of an alloy of unimaginerium and exotic matter with rapidly shifting quantum fields.
Once the author and all the standard scientific equipment had left the universe in the specialist spacetime ship the science could begin in earnest. First a method of navigating reality had to be devised as all methods used within our universe based on the dimensions of spacetime were obviously useless. Fortunately the Wanderer was equipped with state-of-the-art hardware and software invented for any number of dimensions and every quantum eventuality that could be conceived (and even a few that could not be conceived).
When this was achieved the ship was piloted to a high energy state peak of reality and all sensors could begin receiving information. Basic experiments were then conducted to test the nature of this alternaverse and were used as preliminary results to get more funding for further expeditions, which will ultimately lead to the one theory to encompass them all.