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How does someone put a theory onto paper?

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  1. It starts with a description of what observations the theory explains. For a new theory, you discuss what the existing theories are and where they don't work. Then you show how the new theory explains the data, with particular attention to where it works better than the old theory. You would also acknowledge the things your theory doesn't explain, or where it otherwise needs more work. Finally, you use the theory to predict some new findings. You may or may not report research you have done to verify these predictions.

    Before it can be published in a scientific journal, a paper undergoes peer review, in which other scientists look over the paper. Passing peer review doesn't mean the theory is correct, only that it has been adequately explained and has no obvious flaws.

    After publication, other scientists will attempt to verify the predictions, or reproduce the results already reported. Other papers will get published, either building on the original paper, or showing where it is wrong. An important measure of a theory's value is the number of subsequent scientific papers that use its information.


  2. If you want to write a scientific theory then you would write it on paper like any other essay(although I would suggest using a computer because theories often require modifications). The next step is to create and conduct some experiments to defend your theory. Depending on the results observed, rewrite your theory and repeat. You might try looking up APA style essay writing, but for now I would say focus on the theory rather than the grammar errors.

  3. With a pen, typewrite, printer, pencil or what have you. Once it's published, others get to take shots at it.

  4. Usually we use pen or pencil or typewriter or printer to print or write on paper but dont know what you ppl use!!!

  5. Once a theory is put to paper - which just means writ ting down  your hypothesis and the evidence that supports it - it is published in a peer reviewed publication.

    Peer review means that other experts in the same field read what you have written and see if they can reproduce your results through experiment and agree with the conclusions you drew from them.

    Once enough people agree with your findings then your theory becomes established and people start treating it as "fact" (although it is by definition impossible to 'prove' a theory is true).

    How many people it takes to establish a theory and why some theories are taken more seriously than others (even when both seem correct) is just down to how interesting it is and how good at telling people about it you are.

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