"It’s like science pushing a theory as fact; just missing a few important pieces."

Your insult to scientists shows you are ignorant of science and how it works.  A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested many times by many scientists and passed every single test.  For example the theory of evolution or the theory of relativity or the theory of quantum mechanics.  The word theory when used in science says the idea is a very well proven fact, however nothing will ever be proven 100.0000 and a few thousand more 0s% so there is always the chance that the theory will fail the next test and be thrown in the ash can to be replaced by another hypothesis that may become a theory after years more testing.  This is exactly what happened to Newtonian mechanics and Newtonian gravity which at one point had theory status.  Then it became obvious it did not explain Mercuries orbit right so was in trouble by the mid 1800s.  Einstein came along and finished it off as a theory in 1906 even thou Newton is still today a very useful and accurate enough approximation the vast majority of time.  Not to mention far easier to learn.  Newton does not even deserve hypothesis status today.  It is possible, perhaps even likely, that both quantum mechanics and relativity will go the same route at some time in the future to be replaced by a new hypothesis that with testing achieves theory status.  In such a case both will remain very useful and sufficiently accurate approximations that students will still have to learn them as the probability is that the replacements are going to be very hard to learn and use.  Adults, with rare exceptions, are generally incapable of learning either relativity or quantum mechanics to put in perspective the likely difficulty of learning a replacement.

Dick

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