In studying nature, human cognition takes the precise form of experimentation and mathematical formulation.
All scientific theories have to be validated by experiments.
The scientific method is this mode of obtaining knowledge about nature. In this area, nature's laws and the scientific method, as realised in the physical sciences, will be the main focus. An important paradigm in science is explaining the behaviour of phenomena by looking for underlying processes and structures at a more microscopic scale. This has been very successful over the last few centuries leading to the discovery of molecules, atoms, nuclei, etc. This microscopic view of nature will be addressed in this area, drawing mostly from concepts developed in physics.