by Philip Baker <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 14, 2007 at 02:16 AM
In article <Misc-7F1BF9.22564111032007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>Btw, in English, it's called a "hypothesis" until you have collected
>your data, conducted research, formulated a proof and your proof has
>passed peer review. Then you have a "theory" -- like the theory of
>gravity or the theory of evolution.
That's a rather narrow definition of 'theory' and anyway theorems in
mathematics have proofs but scientific theories rarely do.
--
Philip Baker
