What's in a Theory?

[Yeltsin]

1. Saying "Albert is wrong." 'n stuff like that.

2. Long-winded opinion.

3. Anything you want to claim. Broad generalizations.

4. A 'Eureka! moment', and the story that follows.

5. A concisely stated claim where words and equations have concise meanings.

6. In addition to #5, it is falsifiable. If no method is available to test it, you're blowing smoke. See #2 above.

If it's physics, it makes contact with the physical world. Words say something about physically measurable things, or things about other things that are measurable.

Did I miss anything?

[dleviwing]

Yeltsin;
Here’s what you missed! fallacies

[Yeltsin]

Yeltsin;
Here’s what you missed! fallacies

Good one. It should replace number one or two.

[Max™]

Can we say Albert was right instead?

Then put the Eureka moment in earlier?

:P