<span>The first three steps in scientific inquiry are related in that they are all equivalent to being on a fact finding mission. The three steps are to find or develop the question that must be answered, to study all related academic literature on the subject, and then to make a guess as to what the answer is.
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"Gravity gets stronger when there's more mass and weaker when you get farther away" tells you very little.
"A whole lot of energy can come from just a little tiny bit of mass" tells you very little.
And "The speed of light is very very very very very fast" tells you almost nothing.
That's Newton's 1st law of motion, sometimes called the inertia law.