The precise formation mechanism is not known for certain, but the most widely accepted hypothesis suggests that the edge of the Cathedral Formation reef became detached from the rest of the reef, slumping and being transported some distance — perhaps kilometers — away from the reef edge.

This phenomenon is known as Bourget's hypothesis after the nineteenth century French mathematician who studied Bessel functions.

In computability theory, the Church – Turing thesis ( also known as the Turing-Church thesis, the Church – Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture, and Turing's thesis ) is a combined hypothesis (" thesis ") about the nature of functions whose values are effectively calculable ; or, in more modern terms, functions whose values are algorithmically computable.

Giulio Mauro Facchetti, a researcher who has dealt with both Etruscan and Minoan put forward again this hypothesis, comparing some of the Minoan words of known meaning with some similar Etruscan words.

In support of the nutritional hypothesis, it is known that, in the United States, the average height before 1900 was about 10 cm (∼ 4 inches ) shorter than it is today.

De Broglie deduced that if the duality equations already known for light were the same for any particle, then his hypothesis would hold.

The gambler's fallacy can also be attributed to the mistaken belief that gambling ( or even chance itself ) is a fair process that can correct itself in the event of streaks, otherwise known as the just-world hypothesis.

Many species are well known for their specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth and vertical surfaces, and even cross indoor ceilings with ease ( one hypothesis explains the ability in terms of the van der Waals force ).

The hypothesis reappeared in 1786 when Sir William Jones first lectured on the striking similarities between three of the oldest languages known in his time: Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, to which he tentatively added Gothic, Celtic, and Persian, though his classification contained some inaccuracies and omissions.

" Also known as the kinship theory of genomic imprinting, this hypothesis states that the inequality between parental genomes due to imprinting is a result of the differing interests of each parent in terms of the evolutionary fitness of their genes.

He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling the chemical and physical environment.

If F is continuous then under the null hypothesis converges to the Kolmogorov distribution, which does not depend on F. This result may also be known as the Kolmogorov theorem ; see Kolmogorov's theorem for disambiguation.

This ambiguity represents the current state of understanding of the language of Linear A: the known elements are too scarce to build a safe hypothesis about supposed affiliations with known languages.

The inductive hypothesis was also employed by the Swiss Jakob Bernoulli, and from then on it became more or less well known.

Friedman was also known for his work on the consumption function, the permanent income hypothesis ( 1957 ), which Friedman himself referred to as his best scientific work.

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

" Harold Jenkins, in his 1982 Arden edition, dismisses this hypothesis, which is also known as the " early start " theory.

Paul Joseph Cohen ( April 2, 1934 — March 23, 2007 ) was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.

An " enduring and powerful product " of Cohen's work on the Continuum Hypothesis, and one that has been used by " countless mathematicians " is known as " forcing ", and it is used to construct mathematical models to test a given hypothesis for truth or falsehood.

Ultimately, there is no way to measure whether a particular phylogenetic hypothesis is accurate or not, unless the true relationships among the taxa being examined are already known ( which may happen with bacteria or viruses under laboratory conditions ).

A “ protoscience ” may be a field where the hypothesis presented may or may not be in accordance with the known evidence at that time, and a body of associated predictions have been made, but the predictions have not yet been tested, or cannot be tested, due to current technological limitations.

One interpretation of this is known as the sexy son hypothesis.

This idea is known as the good genes hypothesis.

The Mertens conjecture concerning its growth, conjecturing it bounded by x < sup > 1 / 2 </ sup >, which would have implied the Riemann hypothesis, is now known to be false ( Odlyzko and te Riele, 1985 ).

In mathematics, the Mertens conjecture is the incorrect statement that the Mertens function M ( n ) is bounded by √ n, which implies the Riemann hypothesis.

He is known, a. o., for proving the correctness of the Riemann hypothesis for the first 1. 5 billion non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function, with Jan van de Lune and Dik Winter, for disproving the Mertens conjecture, with Andrew Odlyzko, and for factoring large numbers of world record size.

Sometimes a conjecture is called a hypothesis when it is used frequently and repeatedly as an assumption in proofs of other results.

For example, the Riemann hypothesis is a conjecture from number theory that ( amongst other things ) makes predictions about the distribution of prime numbers.

In this case A is called the hypothesis of the theorem ( note that " hypothesis " here is something very different from a conjecture ) and B the conclusion ( A and B can also be denoted the antecedent and consequent ).

An unproven statement that is believed to be true is called a conjecture ( or sometimes a hypothesis, but with a different meaning from the one discussed above ).

Other famous conjectures include the Collatz conjecture and the Riemann hypothesis.

It is used as a hypothesis or conjecture in an investigation.

In brief, the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the conjecture that Λ ≤ 0.

Certain principles ( e. g., for any two objects, there is a collection of objects consisting of precisely those two objects ) could be directly seen to be true, but the continuum hypothesis conjecture might prove undecidable just on the basis of such principles.

Treating this conjecture with merited disregard, Strabo passes on to the hypothesis of Strato, the natural philosopher, who had observed that the quantity of mud brought down by rivers into the Euxine was so great, that its bed must be gradually raised, while the rivers still continued to pour in an undiminished quantity of water.

A confirmation of this positivity conjecture would have led to a proof of the Riemann hypothesis, as was shown by Pál Turán.

The previous paragraph explained how a mathematician might weaken her conjecture in the face of counterexamples, but counterexamples can also be used to show that the assumptions and hypothesis are needed.

This conjecture has two parts to the hypothesis: the shape must be ' a rectangle ' and ' have four sides of equal length ' and the mathematician would like to know if she can remove either assumption and still maintain the truth of her conjecture.

In 1923, Hardy and Littlewood showed that, assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis, the odd Goldbach conjecture is true for all sufficiently large odd numbers.

In 1997, Deshouillers, Effinger, te Riele and Zinoviev showed that the generalized Riemann hypothesis implies Goldbach's weak conjecture for all numbers.

Goldbach's weak conjecture also follows from the generalized Riemann hypothesis.

It was a bold conjecture, given that there was very little observational evidence available to either confirm or confute the hypothesis.

In theoretical physics, particularly in discussions of gravitation theories, Mach's principle ( or Mach's conjecture ) is the name given by Einstein to an imprecise hypothesis often credited to the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.

The Linder hypothesis ( demand-structure hypothesis ) is a conjecture in economics about international trade patterns.

These are unproven ; in 1967, Hooley published a conditional proof for the second conjecture, assuming certain cases of the Generalized Riemann hypothesis.