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Have you heard the word "theory" used in a different way by non scientists in everyday conversation? How is this use of the word different from a scientific theory?

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A hypothesis is an educated guess on the possibility of some phenomena while a scientific theory is when the phenomena is confirmed by observation.


What is a proposed a scientific idea is called?

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