Question

Why is it scientifically unsound to form a theory that cannot be disproven?

Answer 1

A theory needs to be testable.

The way you test a theory is to let other people try to disprove it. If there is no test that anybody can imagine that would disprove your theory, then it is not testable ... and thus it is not scientific.

This comes from the basic notion that it is never possible to *prove* that a theory is True. All you have is evidence ... not proof. If your theory explains the current evidence, that makes it a very good theory ... but there is always the possibility that (a) some evidence may be discovered tomorrow that your theory does *not* explain; or else (b) a better (simpler) theory may be devised tomorrow that explains the same evidence.

So since we can never really know for sure if something is True, the next best thing we can do in science is to eliminate the False theories.

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Answer 2

First we have to know what is theory,

We make theory when there is no mathematical or written proof

This is because a theory is just an imagination

For eg You can consider , Thomson atomic model it was a theory only which was proved wrong

Albert Einstein also said that it is not possible to travel faster than light but our scientists have found some particles named tachyons which travel faster than light but we do not have any living proof of that so it is also called as a theory

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