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If 'correlation doesn't imply causation', then if I find a statistically significant correlation, how can I prove the causality?

I understand that correlation is not causation. Suppose we get high correlation between two variables. How do you check if this correlation is actually because of causation? Or,under what conditions, exactly, can we use experimental data to deduce a causal relationship between two or more variables?