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2006-08-24 15:15:40 · 11 answers · asked by danzer^ 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Most definetely not.
A hypothesis is an educated guess regarding what COULD happen.
A theory has already got quite a bit of stuff that HAS happened backing it up.
2006-08-24 15:22:36 · answer #1 · answered by BugsBiteBack 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No and in fact when most people say theory they mean hypothesis.
A hypothesis is an initial educated explanation to a limited series of observations which is testable, but untested.
If it turns out your hypothesis is untestable, its considered conjecture. If you tests fail to support your hypothesis, then your hypothesis is incorrect (or your test is wrong).
If the test validates your hypothesis it becomes a positive test, and you might be on to something.
A hypothesis can only evolve into a theory when
1. Its arguments have been tested and validated repeatedly by different experiments
2. When it is able to make new predictions that were here-to-for unobserved.
2006-08-25 14:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by DrSean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BugsBiteBack is right. A hypothesis is a guess on why something happens the way it does. You then design experiments that are reviewed by other critics to see if your hypothesis explains the known facts. If your hypothesis holds up to the facts, then it qualifies as a theory.
Gravity, evolution, electromagnetics are all theories; we know they are true and factual processes. We know something about how they occur but an exact explanation of how each of them occurs is still not fully worked out so we call them theories. Regardless of HOW they occur, they DO occur and the theory describes that process as best it can.
2006-08-24 16:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by Eric G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hypothesis is a question that you propose on any subject, fact or fiction.
A theory is a question posed by more than one person, usually based on some scientific proof or other theorum.
I hope this helps you.
2006-08-24 17:57:10 · answer #4 · answered by metrobluequeen1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hypothesis is the first step of any investigation, it uses to be something your common sense tells yourself, but needs to be proved scientifically. It uses to be postulated as a question to be useful. ...After doing the investigation (according to scientific method) if it proves your hipothesis as true, it may conduct you to postulate a theory, by vinculating the results of your investigation with other investigations. ...Usually a serious investigation have several hypothesis, some of them principal and others considered as sub-hyphotesis.
It´s important to have in mind that every theory (the knowledge, in general) is relative, principally to its time, but to it´s territory too. ...So there are no eternal trues, and what is true here, may not be true there...
2006-08-24 19:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by enhanced_neuronal_machine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hypothesis has to be tested with a series of test before it can become a theory
2006-08-24 15:34:13 · answer #6 · answered by Chris T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it is not . we can examine theorical laws in lab. but hypothesis is an idea and we can not examine it that is true or false.
2006-08-25 03:30:21 · answer #7 · answered by eshaghi_2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fact
2006-08-24 15:52:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what all the girls ask ☺
Doug
2006-08-24 15:45:24 · answer #9 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes....its where you guess what the out will be....then see if you're right
2006-08-24 15:20:38 · answer #10 · answered by echoedwhispers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋