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Fabbs
08-19-2015, 12:38 PM
According to the Encyclopedia of Scientific Principles, Laws, and Theories, a scientific theory, such as Albert Einsteins theory of gravity, must
1. Be observable
2. Be reproduced by controlled experiments
3. Make accurate predictions
Agree?
baseline bum
08-19-2015, 12:44 PM
According to the Encyclopedia of Scientific Principles, Laws, and Theories, a scientific theory, such as Albert Einsteins theory of gravity, must
1. Be observable
2. Be reproduced by controlled experiments
3. Make accurate predictions
Agree?
Disagree, what about cosmology? You can't take a big ball of hydrogen and watch it for 10 billion years to confirm a theory about stars.
boutons_deux
08-19-2015, 01:17 PM
Disagree, what about cosmology? You can't take a big ball of hydrogen and watch it for 10 billion years to confirm a theory about stars.
astrophysicists, etc have been "observing" for 100+ years. There's Bs of "data points" "out there", trajectories that can be reversed, projected.
RandomGuy
08-19-2015, 03:40 PM
According to the Encyclopedia of Scientific Principles, Laws, and Theories, a scientific theory, such as Albert Einsteins theory of gravity, must
1. Be observable
2. Be reproduced by controlled experiments
3. Make accurate predictions
Agree?
Falsifiable has to be in there somewhere.
Blake
08-19-2015, 04:14 PM
http://m.livescience.com/21491-what-is-a-scientific-theory-definition-of-theory.html
Sounds legit
What's the follow up question, fabbs
Wild Cobra
08-19-2015, 07:35 PM
According to the Encyclopedia of Scientific Principles, Laws, and Theories, a scientific theory, such as Albert Einsteins theory of gravity, must
1. Be observable
2. Be reproduced by controlled experiments
3. Make accurate predictions
Agree?
For the most part, yes.
An idea becomes a theory after the idea is hypothesized. There must then be repeated experiments that all do not break the idea. Once any one test breaks a theory, it is no longer a theory.
Biernutz
08-19-2015, 08:51 PM
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Wild Cobra
08-19-2015, 11:43 PM
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb270/systime/Gifffs1234/bullshitbb.gif
Are you channeling Bouton's or Fuzzy?
Blake
08-20-2015, 10:22 AM
What's the follow up question, fabbs
Fabbs
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