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Question About the Scientific Method
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RE: Question About the Scientific Method
April 4, 2014 at 9:07 am
(April 3, 2014 at 4:19 pm)Tobie Wrote: If it's un-testable then I wouldn't call it an hypothesis, since it's beginning to get into the realm of Russell's teapot. A theory would need some way of testing it, and preferably a set of expected results that can be tested against.

Would this also apply to the widely-believed Star-Gas-Star model? We obviously can't test the origin or stars, and I don't think we've ever observed a star being born (have we?). Same with the origin of planets - it would take probably a billion or so years to watch space debris coalesce under its own gravity to form planets; we can't very well perform controlled laboratory experiments on it either.

So is our current model of the formation of solar systems also "not even a hypothesis"? I am so confusedUndecided
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Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 3, 2014 at 1:01 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Jackalope - April 3, 2014 at 2:12 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Chas - April 3, 2014 at 2:30 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Tobie - April 3, 2014 at 4:19 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 4, 2014 at 9:07 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Heywood - April 4, 2014 at 9:51 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 4, 2014 at 10:23 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Alex K - April 4, 2014 at 10:06 am
Question About the Scientific Method - by Rampant.A.I. - April 4, 2014 at 10:47 am
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by ThePinsir - April 4, 2014 at 4:02 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Jackalope - April 4, 2014 at 4:49 pm
RE: Question About the Scientific Method - by Angrboda - April 4, 2014 at 11:05 am
Question About the Scientific Method - by Rampant.A.I. - April 4, 2014 at 4:39 pm

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