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The word they should be using is hypothesis, not theory. A theory stands up to scrutiny.
by phkahler 3y ago
The word they should be using is hypothesis, not theory. A theory stands up to scrutiny.
- dylan604 3y agothere you go, an even better word. good thing i don't call myself a scientist
- mr_mitm 3y agoThat's not how the term "theory" is used in science. Only hobbyists care about the distinction, actual scientists infer the implied certainty from context. There is Born's rule, Noether's theorem, Newton's law (which we know is wrong), Einstein's theory of GR, the standard model (which is the best thing we have), ... sometimes we use the word "a quantum theory" to mean a certain Lagrangian, even one which we know does not describe reality at all.
- consilient 3y ago> Noether's theorem is not like the other entries on your list. It's a full-blown mathematically rigorous theorem (that incidentally also happens to be of central importance in physics), not a physical model.