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Originally Posted by gary_580
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Because, pretty much everything is a guess and if scientists only published things which could be proven beyond doubt, we'd still be in the dark ages. Much of modern science is based purely on theories, to take a commonplace example, the theory of relativity.
If Einstein had decided to do the extra work involved to prove the theory of relativity beyond doubt before publishing it, we'd never have heard about it today, and much of 20th century physics wouldn't have evolved beyond Newtonian physics.