Because experiment is a technical vernacular with a rigorous definition. The colloquial definitions most all of us learn are incorrect.
Are you seriously that ignorant?
I was once!
Name one astronomical theory that wasn't verified through experiments.
Most any of them. You pick one, and an experiment or two that bore it.
The reason is because, in science, theory is bore of repeated experiment. Without experiment, there can be no theory.
Mere observation can never be an experiment. There are very good reasons for this in science.
As i said, essentially the only way which astronomy is science is in establishing natural law (what is, not why or how). All whys and hows in astronomy are pseudoscience/mythology/religion masquerading as science.
Because experiment is a technical vernacular with a rigorous definition. The colloquial definitions most all of us learn are incorrect.
I was once!
Most any of them. You pick one, and an experiment or two that bore it.
The reason is because, in science, theory is bore of repeated experiment. Without experiment, there can be no theory.
Mere observation can never be an experiment. There are very good reasons for this in science.
As i said, essentially the only way which astronomy is science is in establishing natural law (what is, not why or how). All whys and hows in astronomy are pseudoscience/mythology/religion masquerading as science.