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An explanation is a set of statements constructed to describe a set of facts which clarifies the causes, context, and consequences of those facts.
This description may establish rules or laws, and may clarify the existing ones in relation to any objects, or phenomena examined. The components of an explanation can be implicit, and be interwoven with one another.
An explanation is often underpinned by an understanding that is represented by different media such as music, text, and graphics. Thus, an explanation is subjected to interpretation, and discussion.
In scientific research, explanation is one of several "purposes" for empirical research. Explanation is a way to uncover new knowledge, and to report relationships among different aspects of studied phenomena. Explanation attempts to answer the "why" question. Explanations have varied explanatory power. The formal hypothesis is the theoretical tool used to verify explanation in empirical research.
While arguments attempt to show that something is, will be, or should be the case, explanations try to show why or how something is or will be. If Fred and Joe address the issue of whether or not Fred's cat has fleas, Joe may state: "Fred, your cat has fleas. Observe the cat is scratching right now." Joe has made an argument that the cat has fleas. However, if Fred and Joe agree on the fact that the cat has fleas, they may further question why this is so and put forth an explanation: "The reason the cat has fleas is that the weather has been damp." The difference is that the attempt is not to settle whether or not some claim is true, but to show why it is true.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (/ˈniːəl dəˈɡræs ˈtaɪsən/; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.
Born in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, he completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University in 1980. After receiving a master's degree in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, he earned his master's (1989) and doctorate (1991) in astrophysics at Columbia University. For the next three years, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, and in 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210-million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000.
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What's your explanation?
'Cause everybody got one
What's your expectation?
I know you got some of those too
Are you one to fly with the creatures
That always burn up in the flame?
Or are you one to sing with the creatures
That make up the rules to the game?
I wont get hung up, strung up on the reasons why
If you knew me better
Baby, you would change your mind and leave it all behind
What's your explanation?
What's your favorite color, your sign
Your basic sense of style and date of birth?
Who's gonna win your heart
And when your heart's been won
And when your heart's been won
Is it still your daddy first?
Are you one to dance to the rhythm
Or break till the pain shakes loose?
Or are you one to cry?
Oh, but you stay dry all night long
I won't hung up, strung up on the reasons why
If I knew you better, maybe, I could change your mind
If you knew me better
Maybe, you will change your mind and leave it all behind
What's your explanation?
Are you one to fly with the creatures
That always burn up in the flame?b
Or are you one to sing with the creatures
That make up the rules to the game?
What's your explanation?
What's your explanation?
What's your explanation?
'Cause everybody got one
'Cause everybody got one