A fun little observation from a STEM major about Dottore's specific wording

Can we note that Dottore calls this whole thing an experiment and not a mission or research, but an experiment.

And while Dottore is passionate about the experiment he seems almost passive about the results, because that's what scholars typically do anyway.

But to really explain my point I need you all to understand that an experiment is not a definitive and instead a test for something, it's 3rd stage of the scientific method, not the first.

Which leads me to wonder? What on earth is Dottore testing for? Like what question? And we know he does that for all his other experiment by the way, he was always trying to answer a question of sorts like "effects of god remains on humans" "aranaras and dreams" and etc. All those were to answer a question.

Also before doing an experiement there's meant to be a hypothesis, which is possible but non-definitive answer to the question and can't acrually be called true or false only proven or disproven. Which is what the experiment stage is for.

I wanna know what the scientific question he asked is and the hypothesis he is trying to prove/disproved. The results themselves doesn't necessarily prove you right by the way, simply opens up the possibilty for further experiments based on the results since the experiment needs to be replicated multiple times in order to be a definitive.

Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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ask_not_the_sparrow2026-01-04 01:33

My somewhat baseless speculation is that he wants to prove that he can become a God himself without celestia intervening

LunarSDX2026-01-04 02:26

I dont think he wants to become a god, but rather break fate. Characters are destined to follow the fate their constellation has no matter what, its a law baked into the world. I think The Dropout wants to break that law and destroy fate itself. Hence why he burns Irminsul in the future. Becoming a god is just a necessary step in destroying fate.

GettingWokeUp2026-01-04 05:25

Being able to break fate essentially makes him a god, more powerful than any god residing in Teyvat that’s for sure

rixinthemix2026-01-04 01:39

I don't think that matters. He seems stuck at the 3rd step without doing even the first two steps and even without reaching the seventh.

SweetStrawberries142026-01-04 01:49

That's likely due to the nature of what he is experimenting on , which seems to human nature, godhood and ascension so it is a hard topic to research to begin with.

But he does have some loyal subordinates, and the people he shares his results with are mostly his higher ups (Pierro and Tsaritsa) so he's reached that last stage at least a few times. Bur he's definitely gone through the full method considering Scara's experiment was complete.

SweetStrawberries142026-01-04 01:55

Added to that, he definitely did the first two steps. The question asked in Sumeru was "Can you MAKE a god" and the hypothesis was "Yes, but it requires the power from an already existing god"

Then the experiment was to build said god using a puppet instead of a human since we've already tested that with Collei (i.e "can a human handle god powers" the answer was not unlikely). Then observe and collect the data from it, which would've been how long it took for Scara to acrually reach divinity, how long it took for him to maintain said divinity and how well he fared against an actual god.

To which it seems he is recreating the same experiment again now because that's how experiments work when your initial experiment doesn't prove/only partially proves your hypothesis, you remake it- hence Dottore's Scaramouche experiment only partially proved his initial hypothesis. When that happens you have to keep changing the variables till you get one that supports your hypothesis.

Neospanner2026-01-04 02:27

While we don't know if he has any formalized hypotheses, it's commonly understood (and supported by what we've seen of a lot of his experiments) that his goal is to find ways to elevate humanity.

According to the [Wise Doctor's Pinion](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Pale_Flame#Wise_Doctor's_Pinion), his research as a youth was a bit more modest. He was expelled from the Akademiya for his experiments in trying to augment humans into superhumans. Once Snezhnaya offered to foot the bill, though, he became far more ambitious in his goals, and promised that he'd find a way to create a god.

In the manga, it was shown that he augmented humans and tested them by forcing them to fight to the death. He eventually roboticized one of his subordinates who had failed him, which could be considered another form of augmentation. The manga also showed that he was experimenting with the remains of dead gods, by the experiments performed on Collei and others.

Transhumanism seems to be his primary field of study, and godhood being one goal among many - and possibly not even the final goal.

rixinthemix2026-01-04 03:53

It will be interesting to see how he looks at the Sinners, one of which already travels to other worlds. They never reached god status, but instead became *something different*.

passingbyEfood2026-01-04 03:31

I got another personal question about this as a whole fatui stuff, when Pierro said ''gods had it's limit'', i wonder if he said it as if he want to test that god(celestia and co) had it's limit, or a reminder to Dottore about his experiments that ''god had it's limit''

grumpykruppy2026-01-04 03:58

You could read it as the latter, but it's almost certainly meant as the former.

PaulStarhaven2026-01-04 03:39

Probably manufacturing godhood. He already succeeded with Scaramouche but dunno how the Irminsul wipe affected his notes on that.

InterviewThick53342026-01-04 04:01

You don't need to be a STEM major to know any of this. Most high schools will usually teach you about the scientific process. Regardless, the scientific process can be much more meticulous the higher you get and the experience definitely does change how you think about certain things in your environment. In particular, it teaches you critical thought and when you further into your education career, how to formally prove or disprove certain statements through writing.

SweetStrawberries142026-01-04 04:04

You don't need to be one to know the scientific method yes, but most STEM majors use it on the regular and we tend to delve deeper into each stage of the method individually. This is covered in first year (well in my case it's foundation).

So I personally found how much more interesting Dottore has gotten based on my particular experience because once you look at him from that lense, you start getting a pretty good understand of not just the kind of person he is fundamentally but also what his experiment could be and even predict his future ones.

Offduty_shill2026-01-04 06:25

ikr this is literally knowing the meaning of the word

Mochi-TheCat2026-01-04 04:53

Hey, what about the "The experiment begins" followed by "Show me how long you can struggle...before you drown". People who have worked with rats and mice now what this guy is talking about, so it's pretty uh, dark. google "water maze" if you dont know