get where you are going, but that's how science works. Form a hypothesis (gut feeling), construct a test to falsify that hypothesis, if they hypothesis cannot be falsified, take it as a given (for now.)
The Scientific Method requires you to formulate an hypothesis by interpreting observed data, and then attempt your very best at trying to DISPROVE your own hypothesis. If you are unable to disprove your own hypothesis, then you have a working theory, and you release your results and data and let others try to disprove your working theory. Even a well-tested theory is usually still a theory, like the Theory of Special Relativity, but some theories have been so thoroughly tested that we can use them to statistically predict outcomes with virtually 100% certainty, and have been grudgingly accepted a physical laws, such as the Three Laws of Thermodynamics.
Three Laws of Thermodynamics
Fascinating stuff, for example:
Entropy may also be viewed as a physical measure concerning the microscopic details of the motion and configuration of a system, when only the macroscopic states are known. Such details are often referred to as disorder on a microscopic or molecular scale, and less often as dispersal of energy. For two given macroscopically specified states of a system, there is a mathematically defined quantity called the 'difference of information entropy between them'. This defines how much additional microscopic physical information is needed to specify one of the macroscopically specified states, given the macroscopic specification of the other – often a conveniently chosen reference state which may be presupposed to exist rather than explicitly stated. A final condition of a natural process always contains microscopically specifiable effects which are not fully and exactly predictable from the macroscopic specification of the initial condition of the process. This is why entropy increases in natural processes – the increase tells how much extra microscopic information is needed to distinguish the initial macroscopically specified state from the final macroscopically specified state. Equivalently, in a thermodynamic process, energy spreads.
That's why I said that you create tests to falsify your hypothesis. I didn't say that the tests proved it.
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