Phenomena Science

Phenomena Science is a sub-topic of Experimental science that utilizes a theoretical combination of physical and chemical possibility to hypothesize certain instantaneous chemical and physical reactions that one object may have on another. Scholars such as Émile Durkheim claim this science to be of minimal credibility due to its hypothetical nature. Durkheim came from the school of Scientific Realism and had the view that a scientific argument must be erected from a foundation of knowledge of concrete reality, not from a knowledge of perceived observation. However, other scholars support the validity of Phenomena Science as it pertains to modern Scientific Methods. Mill's Methods of Concomitant Variations substantiates that "If across a range of circumstances leading to a phenomenon, some property of the phenomenon varies in tandem with some factor existing in the circumstances, then the phenomenon can be attributed to that factor."
By this theory, any force, even one that is Supernatural, acting in tandem with a variable reaction, could thusly be scientifically attributable and logical.
Mill deems the method useful "for cases where the methods of agreement and difference cannot be applied because we are facing phenomena which can be neither excluded (to see what happens in their absence) nor isolated (to exclude irrelevant factors)"
On August 03, 2010, Florida-based singer/songwriter Tristan Clopet uploaded a YouTube video that is widely criticized for being illegitimate. However, after giving the video a closer examination, one could easily suggest the argument that without the presence of Tristan, there would be no variable to engage the Tulips to cause such an expedited process of Photosynthesis, thus no stimulant to cause the tulips' growth. Therefore, in studying Mill's Methods, one could logically conclude that Tristan's presence, if not his voice, acted as a concomitant variable that caused a physical, and chemical reaction in not only the Tulip, but the moisture, air pressure, and sunlight that was acting upon the tulip at that very moment.*

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