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A question you ask the universe when you don't trust your own guessing.
means A test you set up on purpose to find out whether something is actually true, instead of just assuming it.
from From Latin experiri, 'to try, to test,' the same root that gives us 'experience' and 'expert' — all of them pointing to knowledge earned by doing, not by guessing. The prefix ex- ('out, thoroughly') plus periri (related to periculum, 'trial, risk' — the same root buried in 'peril') suggests the word always carried a whiff of danger: to experiment is, etymologically, to court a small risk in order to find something out.
- shared root
- experiment and peril come from the same word
- control group
- invented to rule out wishful thinking, not confirm it
- null result
- a failed hypothesis is still a successful experiment
- first recorded
- Ibn al-Haytham used it systematically around 1000 AD