Re: physical pendulums/ an opportunity

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>]

> Why does one need a hypothesis?
>
> to help define a question.  defining the question helps the researcher to
> design an experiment from which he can obtain meaningful results.

Have you ever observed a phenomenon without forming a hypothesis?
Are you so insensitive to the outside world that you have never
said to yourself, on observing something interesting, "Now, why
does that happen?" That is a well defined question. Much science
is done (especially by astronomers who don't have the luxury of
being able to adjust parameters) in just that way.

Science is not exclusively hypothesis testing.

Leigh