Across
- 4. The downside of a physicists training and attitude is that they don’t know much about any particular _______.
- 6. _____ hav a positive charge
- 7. How many counterexamples must be found to disprove a theory?
- 9. ________ continually look for ways to “disprove” the most popular theories.
- 13. ______ have a neutral charge.
- 14. Theories are not taken _______ until they succeed in predicting or explaining.
- 16. Science is not a thing but a _______.
- 17. fundamental particles are defined as those that are not ______ of anything else
- 19. world If a device can be shown to fail even under ideal conditions then there is no point in building it to fail under ____ ______ conditions.
Down
- 1. h20 is the chemical compound for which molecule?
- 2. To prove that a theory in Physics is true is quite ______.
- 3. ________ are not taken too seriously until they have been made by independent observers, preferably using different methods.
- 5. In science, what can never be proved?
- 8. Late 1800s to early 1900s and the properties of the ______ began to be measured.
- 10. In science, we want few assumptions and many ________.
- 11. ________ was predicted quite unexpectedly by Dirac’s theory of the electron.
- 12. Einstein in 1905 showed the visible and measurable effects of _________.
- 15. ______ make up DNA, tissues, organs, you.
- 16. In the mid 1930's, ______ of Germany invented an invisible particle neutrino to save conservation of energy and angular momentum.
- 18. In science you expect to make more and more precise checks of a theory but to never completely ______ it.
