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Originally Posted by photon
Nope, the word theory has a very special meaning in terms of science, and pseudo scientific people / groups use the word a lot to try and lend their ideas merit. While a hypothesis is just a WAG (though maybe an educated one), a theory is a coherent idea or set of ideas that describes a phenomenon and has gone through rigorous testing, made accurate predictions that have been verified, and has tons of supporting evidence.
In common use people use theory to be synonymous with speculation, but when getting into stuff like this where evidence and stuff come into play, I like to be clear with the words being used to try to help communication.
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Pretty hard to argue with logic. Thanks for the explaination.
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Heh, I used to have a huge stack of Omni magazines.
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Back in my school years i had a collection of over 30 books on UFO's, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. Had a friend with whom i exchanged books with. Nerds they call us. Same friend made a fake UFO photgraph and conned most of his teachers and classmates into believing it was real. lol He's probably over in England right now making crop circles.
Nice to know i'm not alone on the subject btw
