To LordSkippy: >>>EDIT: Actually, Brendan Mason, wasn't really wrong, just not completely right. It's normally such a pain to precisely define these sorts of things in a post that doesn't take far too long, that I take it as a point of pride that I only *partially* muffed it. Cheers for the kind words.
>>>Hypothesis IS a theory: they are practically the same thing They are not the same thing to a scientist. A hypothesis is an educated guess based on an observation of a single event or phenomenon. A hypothesis is a rational explanation, but not one that can be proved or disproved due to lack of supporting or contradictory evidence. A theory is an explanation that covers a number of pre-established hypotheses and has been verified multiple times by various ind
