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Originally Posted by HarryT
Indeed. One of the hurdles that science has to overcome when dealing with the general public is of course that the word "theory" has a completely different meaning in the language of science to its usage in everyday English. In science, a theory is a proposition that makes predictions that can be experimentally tested in order to demonstrate the validity (or falsehood) of the proposition. In everyday English a theory is widely understood to mean "an idea that I've come up with but have no proof for".
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I agree, but again, String Theory???
Surely it should still be at the String Hypothesis stage as there does seem to be a lack of experimental evidence.