Chemistry: Atoms First (2nd Edition)

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1305079248
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-924-3

Chapter 1 - Active Learning Questions - Page 51a: 2

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If the experiments does not agree with the theory this means that there can be some error in the theory and it needs to be revised because a correct theory should be able to correctly predict the experiment. Therefore the problem with the given statement is that it assumes the theory is automatically correct and blames the experiment without considering other possibilities. In science, disagreement between experiment and theory can indicate a flaw in the experiment, a limitation of the theory, or new phenomena not yet understood. Good scientific reasoning requires examining both the experiment and the theory objectively, rather than assuming only the experiment could be wrong.
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