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  • Offline Pete

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Reply #15 on: April 12, 2007, 21:07:35 PM
Its all about the primary main objective.
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Reply #16 on: April 12, 2007, 22:11:37 PM
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Ditto for scientists

Then you dont know scientists.  The entire basis of science is disproving someones hypothesis.  Its entire core is undermining previous thought until it is definitively proven.  When its proven it moves into mathematics.  And yes, things can be proven and regularly are.  Thats the difference between science and religion.


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Is string theory really a theory yet? Just heard yet another webcast from New Scientist that says it isnt. Really its a hypothesis pretending to be something more substantial  :mrgreen:  8)


String theory is a theory but nothing more.  It cannot be tested yet and has had no attempts to disprove it.  Its a mathematical possibility but thats about it.  You see thats the problem with dumbing things down into simple phrases people can remember.
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Re:pokemon ban because it promotes evolution..
Reply #17 on: April 12, 2007, 23:20:08 PM
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Ditto for scientists

Then you dont know scientists.  The entire basis of science is disproving someones hypothesis.  Its entire core is undermining previous thought until it is definitively proven.  When its proven it moves into mathematics.  And yes, things can be proven and regularly are.  Thats the difference between science and religion.


Three quarters of it at least is defending the status quo, scientists have an inbuilt need to protect the theory they have been supporting otherwise they look like a bunch of fools.

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Is string theory really a theory yet? Just heard yet another webcast from New Scientist that says it isnt. Really its a hypothesis pretending to be something more substantial  :mrgreen:  8)


String theory is a theory but nothing more.  It cannot be tested yet and has had no attempts to disprove it.  Its a mathematical possibility but thats about it.  You see thats the problem with dumbing things down into simple phrases people can remember.


So its a hypothesis, not a theory.

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hypothesis noun (hypotheses) 2 a statement or theory to be proved or disproved by reference to evidence or facts. 3 a provisional explanation of anything.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: Greek.
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Reply #18 on: April 13, 2007, 00:21:13 AM
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So its a hypothesis, not a theory.

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hypothesis noun (hypotheses) 2 a statement or theory to be proved or disproved by reference to evidence or facts. 3 a provisional explanation of anything.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: Greek.


Do you even read what you quote?  Your definition of a hypothesis is a statement or theory.  So youre saying its not a theory but in fact a theory?  Semantics aside theyre the same thing.

Its a mathematical possibility if you want to be pedantic.  But lets not drift too far off topic ;)
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Reply #19 on: April 13, 2007, 01:39:09 AM
[size=52]SCIENCE![/size]
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[size=52]RELIGION![/size]
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Reply #20 on: April 13, 2007, 16:41:06 PM
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So its a hypothesis, not a theory.

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hypothesis noun (hypotheses) 2 a statement or theory to be proved or disproved by reference to evidence or facts. 3 a provisional explanation of anything.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: Greek.


Do you even read what you quote?  Your definition of a hypothesis is a statement or theory.  So youre saying its not a theory but in fact a theory?  Semantics aside theyre the same thing.

Its a mathematical possibility if you want to be pedantic.  But lets not drift too far off topic ;)


General scientific claim is that a theory predicts something that is proveable via actual experiment, a hypothesis doesnt need that.

sorry but I just love arguing this sort of thing, usually because of scientists saying you just wouldnt understand when they mean Im verbally dysfunctional and I cant explain it.  :mrgreen:
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