FURTHER SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
Experimental or observational results that support the hypothesis might suggest other questions. Additional questions could lead to other related hypotheses, predictions, experiments, results, and even more extended questions. Results that do not support the hypothesis show that the hypothesis should be discarded and another testable hypothesis should be developed.

Either way, any further scientific inquiry will use the same basic steps of the scientific method:

Make observations
Ask critical questions
Create hypothesis
Make prediction
Experiment
Analyze results
Draw conclusions

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