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Aren’t hypothesis and conjecture both guesses made from incomplete information that try to explain something? I think a postulate is sort of an assumption, like a theory, but is more used as a stepping stone to figure out something further than a theory is. A postulate is assumed to be true in order to make sense of something else while a theory is sort of an end in itself? Axioms are things that are obviously true, just observations, while laws are the things that uphold all of the axioms and make them true? Laws have to be dug up instead of just seen I think. Lol that’s the best I could do. I doubt it helped you much, but I learned something today. Huh, unless you wanted the more geometric definitions.
Yes, after skimming through some Wikipedia articles, dictionary entries and Googling things like “hypothesis vs theory” “hypothesis vs conjecture” “law vs theorem” “axiom vs postulate” etc etc
Yes, after skimming through some Wikipedia articles, dictionary entries and Googling things like “hypothesis vs theory” “hypothesis vs conjecture” “law vs theorem” “axiom vs postulate” etc etc
Of course.
But you know: First of all knowledge is work! ;-)
Hahaha that’s crazy and amazing, thanks for posting that :)
I’ve seen the second one on TV before, he is good at explaining. I guess it is impossible of course to really understand unless you do the work, all well.
Sorry to exasperate you, I checked your link, but its explanations were not what I was hoping for at all.
You didn’t, but have you seen there the BASIC explanation? Which is really easy to understand, even for a math fool like me!
—> http://www.superstringtheory.com/basi…
Thank you for trying to help. I was curious about how string theory could be tested. The website you considerately provided did indeed have a section on that, but not one that I found overly helpful. Thanks anyways :)
verge wrote: Thank you for trying to help. I was curious about how string theory could be tested. The website you considerately provided did indeed have a section on that, but not one that I found overly helpful. Thanks anyways :)
If you’re interested, at 14:50 into this video Lee Smolin gives reason to be skeptical about the ability of the LHC experiments to adequately test string theory predictions.
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