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  1. scientific hypothesis, a reasonable guess about how things work but without confirming experimental evidence
  2. scientific theory, a reasonable guess about how things work that has significant confirming experimental evidence and has been replicated in multiple experiments by different researchers
  3. scientific fact, a reasonable guess about how things work that has significant confirming experimental evidence and has been replicated in many experiments by different researchers

Note: nothing in science can be "proven true", only confirmed within a certain probability of being true. No matter how many experiments have been done that confirm an idea, there is always a possibility that a future experiment will reveal a previously unknown defect in that idea. Ideas in science are usually declared "facts" when the evidence has become so overwhelming that few (if any) scientists continue to debate the idea.

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