How science works

So how does science work?  What makes it science?  How do we even know it is science?  What an interesting science class we had the other day.  I was so surpassed at how I thought of science, I mean, I know what science is and I think I know what it isn't but I had never thought that cancer research is technology, not science.  I always thought that research is science based, not technology based.  My eyes were opened yet again during another class at Drake.

How does science work?  Is it magic or are there theories that explain or try to explain how something works.  We all know about the law of relativity, but we can not explain what gravity is.  So how does this work?  Scientists ask questions.  These questions are brought on by curiosity or the scientist just has a problem to figure out.  The scientist than makes an hypothesis to lay out the information the scientist is searching for.  This then leads to more questions, more exploration, more detail emerge and this again may lead to more questions. 

Is there ever a  correct answer to these questions?  There are several answers to the many questions scientist have to research on.   Different scientist come up with different answer because of the way they did the experiment or read the experiment findings differently than other read it.    I think science works through a series of ideas and questions.  For example, the tube and string experiment.  Our group had questions about how the strings would move this way and that way.  Why is that, how does tis work?  We used our knowledge and our curiosity to try and figure out the answer.  Through our questioning and understanding of prior knowledge, we were able to draw a figure of what we thought the inside of the cylinder looked like.  We are still working on the answer of how this works, which   is another way science works.  Science keeps us coming back to try and figure things out and maybe on Monday we will!