Why You Should Never Say "It's Just A Theory" 

But hey... Thad just a unconfirmed suggestion of what might have happened and how j it t worked... A GAME what I just said

@@mangobaby_videos 😂

Lmao

A GAME THEORY

But Hey! That's just a Hypothesis. A Film Hypothesis!

Well his theories aren't as old and well tested as the majority of scientific theories, so he can get away with it.

I was just about to comment this

@@aynonymos his "theories" are also not even theories, since they are only developed by one person and aren't peer reviewed.

@@aynonymos woooosh

@@dylanfernandez1510 "But that's just a hypothesis. A game hypothesis! Thanks for watching"

It’s just a hypothesis, a game hypothesis

yeah that is why🤣

top right corner

Nice job, you copied the top comment

now that's just good manners

What about FILM theory or FOOD theory?

@@juliamaria3807 That's how you get punched.

@@Alzuki. no

Even though your talking about who murdered your brother with an ice pick

I knew someone would say that

I was thinking that too, lol.

Thats the first thing I thought of lol

I find it annoying he calls it theories but tbh, theory IS more catchy

@@metaforth1271 But Matt doesn't use the scientific term for his word "theory". He uses it in the way it is most commonly used since he isn't a science channel, but a games and movie channel to which he thinks up theories. Matt Patt isn't a scientist but a speculator and so in this case the word theory would be correct for the word speculation. In science though you would indeed use hypothesis.

Don't mess with the Jesus!

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Pfft! Lmao! You actually said this.

Yeah. Don't mess with Jesus. When the day comes you'll see his power.

Tehehehe!

@Paul learn to take a joke man

thanks for watching

@@MistakennJ HERE COMES THE SPONS-

Nice job, you copied the top comment

That's just narcissist talk.

@@MetaKnight964 Logical talk, too.

lots of scientific word came from Greek

Physicists just HAD to use Greek letters everywhere

@@aaronrashid2075 No, but since we did, it makes things a lot clearer, especially for figuring out constants or not confusing things for letters.

Also mat pat uses this.

And creatards.

@@warlordofvideogameglitches *_"But that's just a theory, a GAME theory!"_*

@@ansh6370 I don't get it

@@mahirkanani2921 it was at the end of a* show....a really good show 😂

Well, when considering that humanity is destroying itself more and more as time goes on, there might be a third option: -"no, it will never"

@@ferdinandkuhn6975 Wtf are you talking about?

@@epsteindidntkillhimself69 are you seriously thinking that we humans will survive until the end of the universe? Humanity will be wiped out from existence after at least 2000 years. Look at everything... climate change, atomic weapons, etc... and when there's no more humans, there's no one who will answer scientific questions that humanity still has to answer.

@@ferdinandkuhn6975 It's just a theory though

@@Maurricent a game theory ;)

@@randybonner9870 the scientific theory and "a theory" are different things. But flat earthers don't know that and they love using "theory" as a derogatory term

finally a comment that isnt matpat

yeah, it's scary

It's Isaac not Isaak

Gravity is just a theory! That's what I told my dad when he slipped on the floor. He's a young earth creationist.

yeah, it's really a shame that the colloquial connotation of the word has made it difficult for people to understand what a theory is in science.

I would say that since a good scientist hedges their bets “theory” as in “the best damn guess you’ll get but new data can always change my understanding though that’s low risk, I’m not a raging nutter that’s comfortable making absolute statements so theory works” really takes a long time to say.

@@jasonlueker3032 "Theory" is not "guess", not in the slightest.

Wolf NZ Outdoors, in point of case it can be. Hence ppl often confusing the scientific vs common use/meaning.

It's not so much that scientists screwed up by using the word theory, it's that people bugger up the meanings of words when they use them inappropriately. People say "I have a theory" when they mean "I have a hypothesis" - probably because "theory" is shorter and easy to say.

me toooooo!

*cough* MatPat *cough*

I'm sure a lot of them will... For example my friend who always says that to me... :)

whatisdoneinthedark willbebroughttothelight What is your problem with this channel? He is talking about the same theories and experiments done in history, so the "work" that must be shown was shown hundreds of years ago.

A part of me wishes science would just understand idiots are idiots, and call scientific theories something different, like “well understood and accepted way this works” of gravity. Or “the Flerbert of Evolution”

she needed to be fired. 🤨

It should be beaten into children's brains so they don't grow up to say ridiculous things like Eric and Kent Hovind. Repeated once a day in science class so they will never forget what a theory is.

I disagree. The ONLY people who think like this are the ones who DIDN'T take science as a subject in school. They are the ONLY ones that make all these stupid statements.

Mine did, thankfully. Not all were paying attention, clearly.

I be a DOCTOR ” Bodily exersise when compulsory does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acuierd under complusion obtains no hold on the mind” ” education is teaching our children to desire the right things” -Plato They shouldent be forced to learn it, they should be taught it in such a way that they want to lern it.

@@eliasjosephsson3994 Like English.

I'm not going anywhere!

Professor Dave Explains ❤️. Just shared your Covid update video. Unfortunately even this side of the pond (U.K.) we have our shared of cognitive dissonance, science denial and even some of the stupidest flat earthers. Nathan oakly and sleepingwarrior🤦‍♂️. Big big fan!

Nice

@@ProfessorDaveExplains and then he didn’t go anywhere

@@_apsis god dammit I was gonna write that

@mushroom An educated guess is actually closer to a hypothesis. A scientific theory has major explanatory and predictive capabilities.

@@SewerTapes A predictive model that can also be proven to be wrong, aka, disprovable and as such technically just "the most well-educated guess a person could make at any given time, which hasn't been wrong so far".

The unfortunate thing is that you need a half-competent understanding of particle physics in the first place to be able to understand why string theory doesn't have the scientific rigor of things we usually use the label "theory" for in science.

But yes, "string theory" is technically an inaccurate name.

String Theory reproduces QM and GR at low energies or long distances so it must be at least as valid as those two theories. As for experimental evidence, current experiments cannot yet probe Planck scale so obviously there’s a lack of experimental evidence at that scale lol.

"the average joe never saying "It's just a theory."" You don't know how many thousands of people talk along with the Game Theory outro.

@@chukyuniqul I don’t know why the average Joe would need to know about string theory/hypothesis. The point was that scientists are also using the word theory wrong, by their own definition.

I mean, I would have laughed at that. Also, you don't have any proof that music *doesn't* exist.

@@chaotickreg7024 And you have proof that evolution doesn't exist? Do tell. I can't wait to be proven wrong. Because that's a good thing. It means you know more now. Don't you agree?

@@PaulTheSkeptic I agree. If there was proof that a scientific theory was false then I would consider it EXTREMELY important that the information was shared as quickly as possible.

@@chaotickreg7024 I'm glad. So nothing else then?

@@PaulTheSkeptic idk what else there would be. I thought we were both just joking.

lol

Film Theory, Food Theory: ...

He should rename his channel to game hypothesis

@@saadmaansaakib2567 and channels to ____ hypothesisers or ____ hypothesies

@@saadmaansaakib2567 why

Kathleen R - Anti evo says “fine, but Darwin recanted, so your whole theory I wrong”

​@@tanyanguyen3704 Exactly. --- 'Perspective' is my flat-earth idiot, go-to word. (Better known as 'flerfspective'.) Flat-Earthers love to say "don't believe NASA (authority), ONLY believe what you can personally observe." Well, I tell the idiot flat-Earther "Each day here in Florida, I PERSONALLY OBSERVE the sun setting BEHIND the Gulf of Mexico in the west, and that doesn't happen on a flat Earth." And then the idiot says "Oh no, the sun doesn't really set, it just gets farther and farther away until you can't see it anymore. Perspective just makes it look like it is setting.'" ---- And I say, "So let me get this straight. I am not supposed rely on authority, I am supposed to only believe in what I can personally observe. Yet I personally observe the sun setting, but YOU are telling me it really ISN'T setting, and YOU want me to believe what YOU are saying, and not what I PERSONALLY OBSERVE? Really???" ---- Idiots. ----- If they can show me on a flat Earth, the sun rising and setting for EVERYONE, EVERY DAY, then you can call me a flat-Earth believer.

@@kathleenr4047 Many if not most flerthers are fundamentalist Christians, so we note they already have a propensity for irrationality and gullibility. So if we move from a 'flat earth observation' to a 'god observation', we note a full flip in the observable evidence they require for that particular crock of shit.

@@briannewton3535 Many are Muslim as well.

Jonah S here in the USA most are Trump supporters as well.

A FILM THEORY! AAAAAANNNNNNDDDDDDDDD CUT!

I mean it is not really a theory since the phenomenon does exist. Like you wouldn't call mirage a theory.

@@someonestolemyname well its a law, I guess

@@IdaeChop if it were a law that’s what it would be called. It’s still a theory, however it’s one with a *lot* of evidence supporting it

@@apollo1573 it’s a valid theory, still a theory but a proven theory nonetheless

Yeah and we’ve never seen quarks in isolation but that doesn’t stop us from knowing they exist

All Just a theory

@Bill Wilson macro evolution doesnt exist in science, all is just evolution (the macro-micro thing is an outdated concept that creatards latched on to sound scientific) And no scientist have ever claimed to have seen the origin of the universe or figured out how it happened (it's still being studied)

@Bill Wilson Nope, the belief that we came from a rock is the christian myth. Dont worry, that sillyness is the standard answer from creationist. Also evolution doesnt try to explain abiogenesis.

@Bill Wilson Actually, that is what science can back up, and as is demonstrable is not madness (just research how gestation works and you will see how we can emerge from a single cell organism). BTW "also madness" glad to see you agre the christian myth is madness.

*A GAME THEORY*

lol

_Thanks for watching_

Even disproven theories are still theories. They're just bad theories. It's not about what's right or wrong, this video is just about clarifying basic scientific terminology.

My favorite fact far as this goes is that for once the Americans have something right. Stones and pounds are a measure of force, the measure of mass being slugs. It gets ugly when you try to do physics with it though, so I’ll stay metric.

"Why do so many people not understand that some words have different meanings in science than they do in real life?" Idk... probably because we use them in real life all the time assuming the meaning we learned from the people surrounding us is the true meaning, and need explanation to use the actual true meaning? It's a bit more complicated than "people are dumb"

@@ViniSocramSaint ngl, you have a point.

@@ViniSocramSaint tbf the scientific definition of theory is taught in 3rd grade.

​@@ViniSocramSaint Not really, you learn this shit in school, there is little excuse unless you did not attend.

Or Matpat fans. They both believe equally ridiculous assertions.

Game theory came from von Neumann who was also a physicist, mathematician, and engineer.

i don't get it

There is a channel called Game Theory and that's their outro

ah! i see. hopefully i get some spillover traffic from that channel then

i was just about to type that!

There is a real thing called «game theory» and it's not «just a theory».

It is heartening to know that some have an interest in science. I dropped science and physics at school, catching up with it now 40 yrs later. I am learning so much more about science as I chuckle at flat earthers. Hope your education went/is going well.

And mike pence and donald trump.

They already know all this. They don't care about truth, only adjenda

@@sladelefty Oh really? Care to explain?

mgmorgan0223 ?

@@mgmorgan0223 they're both anti vaxxers and Mike Pence believes in gay conversion therapy.

I suspect that either you or he has learned a lot since then.

Honestly this is one of those cases where I think the wise solution to this problem would just be to switch the definitions of theory and hypothesis, or at least use some other word for "theory." I'm sorry, you can't win. The word has been ruined by decades, if not centuries, of linguistic misuse and no amount of lecturing and "well, actually" essays will ever change that. Just call it something else. Use something from the legal world. You already have scientific "laws", which very, very few people ever argue with. Sure, there's flat Earthers and new mexico crystal magic hippies arguing against the laws of physics, but you weren't ever going to convince them, anyways. IDK, you could go full Douglas Adams and call them scientific "regulations" lmao. Or maybe a "treaty." Then when people argue against them you can say you're "sanctioning" their intelligence :D

@@Kevin-jb2pv nice “sanctioning intelligence” is my new defense against anti-intellectuals

@@Kevin-jb2pv yes, I like this.

´have religious like ‘truths’ and theories (even ones people have considered concrete) are disproven and disputed all the time.´ not in science... the acual problem is that news reporters say stuff like ´this dicorver truns science on its head´ the simple fact is that its not and the few times it was like the black holes which einstein believed couldnt exist Scieence solved the question

Regrettably, not all science teachers should be teaching it.

No they shouldn't.

@@ROFT and why is that?

@@CloudeAytr because when a word has different meanings we should use context to determine what the likely definition is rather than force niche definitions on other people for no reason.

@@ROFT it's not for no reason, it's to prevent the confusion and misunderstanding of scientific theories. In this case the word has gained a new meaning through incorrect usage, and this is causing a problem in comprehension. Alternatively science could use a new/different word instead of theory.

@@CloudeAytr it doesn't cause me any confusion. if people aren't aware you can explain it and then it's solved. Were you planning on creating new words for every word which has multiple definitions? Set has 430 of them, maybe you could start with that one. Also that is for no reason; we already have context to allow people to infer the meaning and not be confused. Didn't I mention this?

Totally agree on thet; happened to me too. I love it when a plan comes together*.

69th like muahahaha

Hope you're using literally right.

I actually love that, I'm stealing it! Smart way to present the process visually/in real world. Your students are/were very lucky. :)

thats a dumb way to explaij it to a 12 year old since they should be old enough to understand a direct explanation, no analogies required

@@harrietjameson You'd think that but human brains have a funny way of growing at different speeds, so that's not precisely a guarantee.

I actually struggled trying to beat into some thick heads that theory is not a fact or an absolute truth, even the ones as well established as the theory of gravity, so it works both ways.

@@nukedispenser349 and every fortress has its weak spots. They are simply hard to find in good theories. I always point out that all theories are wrong in some sense - but their purpose is not to be exact but an as-good-as-possible (or as good as necessary) description of observations.

i watched that skit just the other day, great comment

Super underrated comment.

Ignorance loves to breed ignorance.

Bots.

Give enough people a choice (like or dislike) and someone will choose the unpopular one

yes, lol

It’s even more inaccurate then many will admit. Evolution is not a theory in any sense the word.

@@xxsageonexx8910 Evolution is a fact. The mechanism by which that occurs (natural selection) is a Theory (scientific term, not colloquial).

Kirk Ryan Thank you. First one to ever to acknowledge this.

Kirk Ryan Prof Dave did not even acknowledge this.

Thankfully, this comes intuitively to probably 90% of people. It's the 10% (the flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, etc.) with personality issues that truly need to watch this. I feel so glad that I don't know any of those 10% in person. Life is good.

@@pranavlimaye I would say that it doesn't come intuitively, it has to be taught to people, especially given the number of people in America who don't accept evolution. Teaching children just the basic terminology of science is being overlooked, and is leading to misunderstandings.

@Dirk Knight I agree with you that most of us simply forget the little details that make science more concrete, logical, and awesome. Sadly we humans can't remember stuff well unless it interests us. But I also agree with Hareecio that Americans are worse off than the rest of the bunch. I'm no expert, but I think the two-wing politics has significantly divided them into two separate bubbles. Two big echo chambers that have little influence over each other. A lot of stupidity is born from these echo chambers.

I have similar experience. I never had a clue what science really is until college. I took an intro geography class (physical geography), which was basically the same thing as geology 101. Which I took the following semester, followed by several more geology classes and other science classes. Loved it, though I couldn’t keep up once I started taking more advanced classes. I never had any interest in science prior to this because high school never taught me what science really is. To me, in high school, it was just a bunch of boring facts to memorize and regurgitate, like everything else in high school. But after being exposed to what science really is, I realized science is basically problem-solving, using the same thought processes I already used. Even though I didn’t end up going very far in science, it still made a huge impact. It bothers me how often the word science is misused in today’s world. Especially by doctors. Who all seem to believe they are scientists even though they don’t have to take science classes (and obviously don’t know what science is).

THANK YOU. As a Catholic, I hate dealing with anti-science Catholics.

@@graybonesau So you're saying you believe blasphemy just because the church has to pretend it doesn't defy god to keep any semblance of credibility. Catholicism is anti-science inherently. If you strip away the parts that aren't, you're left with literally nothing.

@@dandynoble2875 I mean, it isn't inherently anti-science. Catholicism is one of the most science-accepting denominations. If you think religion is only fancy stories about the man in the sky who created the universe somehow, you've got a lot to learn. Also, 'defying' God? According to who's denomination?

@@graybonesau Believing in the resurrection is inherently anti-science. Seeing as that's a core belief of the religion, then it can be said that it is anti-science. It's not up to them to accept or reject reality. The fact they accept it in some areas and reject it in others has no effect on it.

@@dandynoble2875 If that's your belief, then you can keep being the loud antitheist.

Amen!

But there is also the fact that just because something isn't falsifiable, that doesn't mean it can't be true. That is something a lot of people swing to.

"Why would I ask a question if I know that the answer is yes" would be my simple explanation for these people. Why would I do an experiment where the only outcome is "I was right"?

A FOOD THEORY

I keep trying to get them to watch this video.

@@ProfessorDaveExplains :D Thumb up for that!

@@koganboss4874 Sadly, they won't leave their echo chamber.

Yes, a law is what happens, a theory is why it happens.

Yes, sadly. They have their ears stuffed with horse manure.

@@pranavlimaye Ernie, you got a banana in your ear ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EJ1a0ymGCKA.html

@@worfoz lol nice