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Originally Posted by Jim83
The whole thing seems like a massive waste of money to me. The "big bang" has only ever been a theory that has never (and almost certianly will never) be proven.
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*WARNING - SCIENCE LESSON*
The Big Bang is not a theory. It is a hypothesis. People seem to confuse the two, especially with respect to the theory of evolution (really the theory of natural selection).
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hypothesis is basically an educated guess. This guess can be supported or refuted, based on experimental evidence. Lay people often take this definition to apply for the word theory as well.
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theory is the explanation of a set of observable
facts. A hypothesis/set of hypotheses can become a theory if there has been found no evidence to disprove it by many independent groups of researchers AND if it can make predictions about other related phenomena.