<h2>What science does and doesn’t tell us</h2> <img title=”chef02b” src=”http://www.faradayschools.com/wp-content/uploads/chef02b-192×300.png” alt=”” width=”161″ height=”251″ /></a>Lots of interesting everyday questions that people have are ones that science doesn’t seem to help with like ‘Does my best mate still like me?’ “Why do some people like thick pancakes while others prefer thin and crispy?’ ‘Where did I leave my shoes?’ and ‘Who’s eaten the last of the corn flakes?’. Instead science seems concerned with explaining things like, ‘Why do books slide over tables and then stop?’ ‘Why do bulbs light up in a circuit?’ Actually, that’s not quite the end of it. Scientists also explore bigger questions like, ‘Why do planets form’ and ‘What is the universe made from?’ (Big questions, right?). But even so, science seems to have its own ‘zone’.

So the big puzzle is, what kinds of questions DOES science address?

Decide on your own definition now and then see what you say at the end of the unit.

<h2>Solving scientific puzzles</h2> Here’s how Galileo addressed this question. He said: