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A very complicated question but to pare it down:

An hypothesis is a preliminary answer to a scientific question but is one which needs testing.

A theory is an hypothesis that has withstood numerous tests and has not failed.

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A scientific hypothesis is an educated guess of what will happen in the experiment. A scientific theory is someone's thoughts on why something happened in an experiment. However, this cannot be proven. The opposite of this is a scientific law. This is statement of what will always happen under the same conditions.

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A theory is based on an idea that has been proven to be correct. A hypothesis is an idea that has not yet been proven conclusively.

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A hypothesis is an educated answer to a question, which is proved by experimenting. A theory is a conclusion that you come to after undergoing several experiments.

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A Hypothesis is an educated guess. A Theory is based on mass amounts of evidence all pointing to a likely conclusion.

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A hypothesis is an idea that the research thinks is true based on background knowledge, but which has not been tested. When I hypothesis has been confirmed through tests, it becomes a theory.

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