how do you test whether you ideas are correct

Question: how do you test whether you ideas are correct
- Keywords:
  experiment,
  idea,
  test
Asked by oneway_dolt to emilywalls, Andy S on 11 Mar 2026. This question was also asked by pace532gene76.
- Emily Walls answered on 11 Mar 2026:
  
  As what some would call an ‘observational’ person, I take peoples theories that they’ve worked on and simulations and compare that to real data that we get from telescopes, so we essentially can verify if these ideas are correct or not!

Question: how do you test whether you ideas are correct