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Photoscience vs Protoscience - What's the difference?

photoscience | protoscience |

As nouns the difference between photoscience and protoscience

is that photoscience is any branch of physics, chemistry or biology concerned with the actions of light while protoscience is an unscientific field of study which later becomes a science (eg astrology becoming astronomy and alchemy becoming chemistry).

photoscience

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any branch of physics, chemistry or biology concerned with the actions of light
  • The science of photography

    • protoscience

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unscientific field of study which later becomes a science (e.g. astrology becoming astronomy and alchemy becoming chemistry).
  • A field of study at the initial phase of the scientific method, involving information gathering and hypothesis formulation, but is not yet falsifiable, or if it is, its predictions have not yet been observed.