Union Science



Union Science is a systematic enterprise (under the auspices of the Science Corps and the Hive of Minds), that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the omniverse. In an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to a body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist.

In modern usage, "science" most often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, not only the knowledge itself. It is also often restricted to those branches of study that seek to explain the phenomena of the material universe.

However, "science" has also continued to be used in a broad sense to denote reliable and teachable knowledge about a topic, as reflected in modern terms like library science or computronic science. This is also reflected in the names of some areas of academic study such as "social science" or "political science".