Physics

Law

A general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted; also known as a principle

Theory

A synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about certain aspects of the natural world

Hypothesis

An educated guess; a reasonable explanation of an observation or experimental result that is not fully accepted as factual until tested over and over again by experiment

Pseduoscience

Fake science that pretends to be real science

Scientific method

Principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses

Fact

a phenomenon about which competent observers who have made a series of observations are in agreement

Science is concerned mainly with the

natural world

The synthesis of a large collection of information that contains well-tested and verified hypotheses about certain aspects of the world is known as a scientific

theory