7 sentences with 'hypothesis'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hypothesis and other words derived from it.
• « Many venture the hypothesis that the kings of the Nile, the Egyptians, are direct descendants of the Atlanteans who managed to flee. »
• « One hypothesis is that those with bubonic plague may have contracted pneumonia as a secondary infection, and that pneumonia was therefore another lethal component of the Black Death. »
• « Bacon is best remembered for "creating" the scientific method: advancing a hypothesis to explain the observed data, but then trying to disprove the hypothesis rather than trying to force the facts to prove it. »
• « In time, the scientific method came to include a corollary requirement: the results of an experiment had to give the same results consistently for a hypothesis to be considered viable. »
• « However, the most widely accepted hypothesis to explain the rooted formations of birds is that they provide protection against birds of prey. »
• « But Hawking went on to propose a more radical hypothesis. Taking quantum theory into account, he developed his concept of "boundarylessness", according to which there is no absolute point at which the universe began. Space and time, energy and matter thus become a completely self-contained package. »
• « One hypothesis is the so-called "leader error". It is explained as follows: sometimes a group of cetaceans prowl aggressively in coastal areas in search of food. If the beach slope or environmental conditions are dangerous, a mistake by the leader is often disastrous for everyone. »