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herpdorplarp on March 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: CERN experiment discovers five new particles

By assuming validity of a theory you can make predictions. Observations provide evidence in support of this.

iamconfused on March 22, 2017 [–]

A theory comes later. You start off with a hypothesis. You don't make any assumptions of validity.

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