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Old 19-01-2011, 11:24 AM
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Scientific theories are never proven. At best empirical data can support a theory or disprove it (in other words the theory is falsifiable).

If physics theory is "proven" then it is a theorem.

For example General Relativity is a theory, Birkhoff's theorem on the other hand which is derived from General Relativity can be proven.

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