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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan
Oh, and a hypothesis is an idea that has not been shown to make useful predictions, as a theory. And the idea that a theory makes useful predictions, does not mean it is always right. In fact, theories are often wrong more than they are right. Newton's theory of gravity is wrong. It has been prov en to be wrong, but it works sometimes, and so is useful when it is "good enough"
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"Although Newton's theory has been superseded by Albert Einstein's general relativity, most modern non-relativistic gravitational calculations are still made using Newton's theory because it is simpler to work with and it gives sufficiently accurate results for most applications involving sufficiently small masses, ..."
From: Gravity - Wikipedia
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