Prediction

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When you predict something, you say what will happen before it happens.

It is often very helpful to know what is going to happen, because you can prepare for these future events.

The most popular example for prediction (the noun of it) is the weather forecast. If you know that it is going to rain today you can wear the right clothes for it.

Predictions are given by science or fortune tellers or horoscopes.

[edit] Prediction in science

For a prediction you first need to accept the basic principle that two similar starting positions make two similar results.

So now you have to observe a reaction. After that you make a new experiment and guess what is going to happen according to the previous result. If the result is not the same as you guessed (predicted), you will have to make a new system to explain the new result.

This process has to go on until the result is similar to the guessed result (the prediction). What is similar and what is not has to be chosen by the scientist.