system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: In scientific theory, why do we need to hypothesize? Why can't we just go "Let's try this and see what happens!"
gpt
In reality there is no difference between hypothesizing and what you have described. In modern science you only publish hypotheses that turn out to be correct, and so you essentially play around, do this or that, whatever your intuition or other studies suggest might be a useful thing to do until you find something interesting at which point you stop, pretend you didn't know what would happen, write down your hypothesis and publish the results you found.