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Hypothesis: What Does it Really Mean?
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[QUOTE="jim mcnamara, post: 6249837, member: 35824"] Take the word "theory" for example. In every day language: I have a theory This means I just pulled this idea out of my nether region, so I'll throw it into our conversation This fact is part of the Theory of General Relativity. A scientific theory is a scientific statement that has been shown to be correct. Plus, it correctly predicts facts we could not even guess. Relativity predicted black holes. Nobody could see them back then when Relativity was firsr defined. It was more than 100 years later that we generated an image of one. The point is: the onus is on scientists to know this happens with many words, and to find a way NOT to confuse non-scientists. We are supposed to know better. Helen Quinn has a letter to scientist types on this problem: [URL unfurl="true"]https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March07/Quinn/Quinn.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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