I believe a lot of the confusion results from forming conclusions based on what is presented in headlines, both in media and journals, instead of reading the usually much more modest full text.

Shitty attention economy at work. Brain rot started a loooong time ago.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So Dark Matter is a hypothesis?

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Dark matter is a place holder. There are hypotheses about what it could be.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought that was a Law?

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it’s that Laws are proven to be true whereas Theories just have not yet been proven false.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 2 days ago

Not quite. Laws are a single proven statement and theories are a collection of laws used to explain why something is the way it is.

The Big Bang Theory uses the laws of physics to justify it.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 2 days ago

A law or principal is a single proven statement while a theory is a collection of proven statements.

Basically, a law is how things work while a theory is why things work.