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.
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.
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.
A Hypothesis is an educated guess. A Theory is based on mass amounts of evidence all pointing to a likely conclusion.
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.
A hypothesis requires confirmation to advance to the status of theory.
A hypothesis is an 'educated guess' based on observation and common sense. A theory is a commonly-accepted hypothesis that has held under the pressure of testing by many different scientists.
A hypothesis is a educated guess about how you think something is going to turn out. A theory is a way of how something might happen that has not been proven. A guess is like a hypothesis but not educated.
Both a hypothesis and a theory offer an explanation of some observed phenomenon. The difference is that a hypothesis must have confirmation to become a theory.
a theory is produced after running an experiment and hypothesis is an educated guess before experimenting