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Hypotheses are ideas which are, as yet, unsupported by evidence.

As a hypothesis becomes backed up by mathematical formulae and observational data, it may, if it is sound, become a theory.

All scientific theories began life as hypotheses, it is merely a case of which hypotheses become theories, and which fall down by the wayside after being discredited or having lacked support.

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