Question

Scientists sometimes use analogies, or comparisons to other ideas and objects, to explain the nature of science. Are scientific ideas MORE like a piece of glass or a piece of aluminum foil?

Answer 1

I would see it as a piece of glass since these ideas can be proven otherwise at any time.

Explanation:

Throughout history, analogies have played an important role in scientific discoveries, not as proof, but as inspiration. Analogies have also played an important role in explaining those discoveries (Kaiser, 1989).

Answer 2

Explanation:

How about both?

Glass permits you to see what is going on inside a closed container. Usually it is microscopic view of something that is very tiny to start with.

It's like foil in that what you are looking at can change dramatically very quickly. If you take an ink drop and put it water, the random motion of the water molecules diffuses the ink (spreads it out). This is called diffusion or Brownian movement.

It is like the foil because the crumpled foil has no set pattern.