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  2. List of discoveries influenced by chance circumstances

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    Many relevant and well known scientific theories were developed by chance at some degree along history. According to a legend, Archimedes realized his principle on hydrostatics when he entered in a bath full of water, which overflows (he then shouted out his famous "Eureka!").

  3. Uncertainty - Wikipedia

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    Quantitative uses of the terms uncertainty and risk are fairly consistent among fields such as probability theory, actuarial science, and information theory. Some also create new terms without substantially changing the definitions of uncertainty or risk. For example, surprisal is a variation on uncertainty sometimes used in information theory ...

  4. Uncertainty quantification - Wikipedia

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    Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is the science of quantitative characterization and estimation of uncertainties in both computational and real world applications. It tries to determine how likely certain outcomes are if some aspects of the system are not exactly known.

  5. List of natural phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Examples include: sunrise, weather, fog, thunder, ... natural phenomena have been observed by a series of countless events as a feature created by nature.

  6. List of physical constants - Wikipedia

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    The constants listed here are known values of physical constants expressed in SI units; that is, physical quantities that are generally believed to be universal in nature and thus are independent of the unit system in which they are measured. Many of these are redundant, in the sense that they obey a known relationship with other physical ...

  7. Determinism - Wikipedia

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    John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner developed this nurture-focused determinism. Cultural materialism, contends that the physical world impacts and sets constraints on human behavior. Cultural determinism, along with social determinism, is the nurture-focused theory that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are.

  8. Natural experiment - Wikipedia

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    This study was an example of a natural experiment, called a case-crossover experiment, where the exposure is removed for a time and then returned. The study also noted its own weaknesses which potentially suggest that the inability to control variables in natural experiments can impede investigators from drawing firm conclusions.' [ 12 ]

  9. Uncertainty principle - Wikipedia

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    The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics. It states that there is a limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known. In other words, the more accurately one property is measured ...