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<blockquote data-quote="FrumiousBandersnatch" data-source="post: 77660751" data-attributes="member: 241055"><p>Not exactly. Further research may lead to a discovery that falsifies the theory, or may show how the theory explains the hitherto unexplained.</p><p></p><p>Einstein's theory of General Relativity is still being researched and tested - the idea is to see if it fails somewhere and so get a clue to a deeper understanding of what it explains, which results in a better theory, or to see if it can explain as yet unexplained observations.</p><p></p><p>In principle, scientific theories cannot be proved but can be falsified (with certain caveats). Falsification doesn't necessarily make them useless, as they may still provide useful results within certain limits, e.g. they may be valuable approximations of a more complete theory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrumiousBandersnatch, post: 77660751, member: 241055"] Not exactly. Further research may lead to a discovery that falsifies the theory, or may show how the theory explains the hitherto unexplained. Einstein's theory of General Relativity is still being researched and tested - the idea is to see if it fails somewhere and so get a clue to a deeper understanding of what it explains, which results in a better theory, or to see if it can explain as yet unexplained observations. In principle, scientific theories cannot be proved but can be falsified (with certain caveats). Falsification doesn't necessarily make them useless, as they may still provide useful results within certain limits, e.g. they may be valuable approximations of a more complete theory. [/QUOTE]
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