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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Hm, isn't it only, that a theory has to be falsifiable? You can prove it, in the constraints it is supposed to work in.
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You can show that a theory, within experimental error, predicts what actually occurs in certain situations. If the theory also predicts some things that have not yet been observed, when/if those things are observed, it's another good mark for the theory.
But you can never prove that the theory is actually correct - that it, that there are no circumstances under which what the theory predicts will differ from what's actually observed.