Scientists use many different ways to help learn about the natural world. Observing, inferring, predicting, classifying and making models are all different ways to help scientists explore the world. In order to solve the mystery of why the water was delayed while it was inside of the enigma box we needed to used many of the same strategies that scientists use to help the do their work. In order to solve the mystery we used observing, inferring and predicting as a main source of the solution of why is the water so delayed after the water was first put into the top entry. And since there was no way of seeing what was going on inside of the box as scientists we had to predict and infer what was going on where we couldn't see.
While the water was being poured into the top opening something was keeping the water from draining out the bottom. Slowly after about 300ml of water was poured into top, the bottom started to drip slowly. After about another 100ml it began to drip more steadily. Then around 470ml were put in the water started to flow steadily into the beaker underneath the bottom tube.
Inside the box there is something of block inside of the box. There are a number of reasons why it could have been delayed but I think that the tube inside of the enigma box was curled up in a way that there has to be a certain amount of water inside for it to come uncurled and let the water flow through to the exiting tube.
Even though a number of different causes the delay of the water form exiting there was only one right answer to this particular puzzle box. What really happened was all involving the amount of water like I had thought but the way the tube was put in inside was different. The tube inside was looped instead of curled. And when the was enough water going into the tube there water would be pushed up the tube and when it reached where the overflow would go down and that is when the water started to flow constantly. When the water started to drip it was the left over from before. There are so many different problems scientists have to solve every day and this is similar to other problems.
