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Law of physics
In cosmology, the past hypothesis is a fundamental law of physics that postulates that the universe started in a low-entropy state, in accordance with
Past_hypothesis
American academic (born 1954)
(1) these dynamical laws, but also (2) a past hypothesis and (3) a statistical postulate. The past hypothesis is a claim that the universe was in a very
David_Albert
Conjecture on zeros of the zeta function
half? More unsolved problems in mathematics In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at
Riemann_hypothesis
Thought experiment to assess ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization
anomalies in sediment, or traces of nuclear waste. The hypothesis also speculated that artifacts from past civilizations might be found on the Moon and Mars
Silurian_hypothesis
Hypothesis in physics
associates the initial low entropy content of the universe or the past hypothesis with the effective vanishing of the Weyl curvature tensor of the cosmological
Weyl_curvature_hypothesis
Scientific assessments on the microbial habitability of Titan
of Titan, and may be significant pathways, in terms of the PAH world hypothesis, in producing precursors to biochemicals related to life as we know it
Life_on_Titan
Hypothesis that reality could be a computer simulation
The simulation hypothesis proposes that what one experiences as the real world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which
Simulation_hypothesis
Position that there is no relationship between two phenomena
The null hypothesis (often denoted H 0 {\textstyle H_{0}} ) is the claim in scientific research that the effect being studied does not exist. The null
Null_hypothesis
Cosmological model
satisfies the Weyl curvature hypothesis, thus providing a certain kind of low-entropy past as required by the past hypothesis, statistical mechanics and
Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
Suggestion of an alien civilization on Earth
The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis proposes that reports of flying saucers or UFOs are evidence of a hidden, Earth-based, technologically advanced civilization
Cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis
Hypothesis on why humans have menopause
The grandmother hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain the existence of menopause in human life history by identifying the adaptive value of extended kin
Grandmother_hypothesis
Hypothesis to explain the origins and composition of the Torah
The documentary hypothesis (DH) is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the
Documentary_hypothesis
Idea that any intelligent life is destroyed by aliens
The Berserker hypothesis, also known as the deadly probes scenario, is the idea that humans have not yet detected intelligent alien life in the universe
Berserker_hypothesis
Pseudoscientific claims of past alien contact
Däniken's works, although it also received limited consideration as a serious hypothesis. Critics emerged throughout the 1970s, discrediting Von Däniken's claims
Ancient_astronauts
Concept developed by Ufologists
The time-traveler hypothesis, also known as chrononaut UFO, future humans, extratempestrial model and Terminator theory is the proposal that unidentified
Time-traveler_UFO_hypothesis
Proposal that humans evolved certain features due to filling a semi-aquatic niche
The aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH), also referred to as aquatic ape theory (AAT) or the waterside hypothesis of human evolution, postulates that the ancestors
Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
Creationist hypothesis
The Omphalos hypothesis is one attempt to reconcile the scientific evidence that the Earth is billions of years old with a literal interpretation of the
Omphalos_hypothesis
Interplay between observation, experiment, and theory in science
acquiring knowledge through careful observation, rigorous skepticism, hypothesis testing, and experimental validation. Developed from ancient and medieval
Scientific_method
Science fiction book trilogy by Liu Cixin
Remembrance of Earth's Past such as: messaging extraterrestrial civilisations; gravitational wave transmitter; dark forest hypothesis; space elevator; artificial
Remembrance_of_Earth's_Past
Concept of rebirth in different physical form
noting their beliefs to have substantial differences, and found the hypothesis of early contact historically unlikely. Nonetheless, he proposed the possibility
Reincarnation
Hypothesis of barriers to forming interstellar civilizations
Great Filter hypothesis, at least one of these steps—if the list were complete—must be improbable. If it is not an early step (i.e., in the past), then the
Great_Filter
Hypothesis concerning lack of extraterrestrial contact with Earth
The zoo hypothesis speculates on the assumed behavior and existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life and the reasons they refrain from
Zoo_hypothesis
2008 Chinese science fiction novel
impending invasion fleet from an alien planet. It explores the dark forest hypothesis (so-named after the novel), a possible solution to the Fermi paradox,
The_Dark_Forest
Hypothesis that emotional processes guide or bias decision-making
The somatic marker hypothesis, formulated by Antonio Damasio and associated researchers, proposes that emotional processes guide (or bias) behavior, particularly
Somatic_marker_hypothesis
Fringe hypothesis about a North American comet impact
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) is a widely refuted fringe hypothesis for the cause of the sudden influx of freshwater into the ocean which
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis
Economic theory
relative income hypothesis was developed by James Duesenberry in 1949. It consists of two separate consumption hypothesis. The first hypothesis states that
Relative_income_hypothesis
1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton
real people." He wrote the novel over three years. The "odd-man hypothesis" is a hypothesis that states that unmarried men are better able to execute the
The_Andromeda_Strain
Hypothesis of the formation of the Moon
The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Theia Impact, is an astrogeology hypothesis for the formation of the Moon first proposed in 1946 by Canadian
Giant-impact_hypothesis
Hypothesized effect of blood lead levels on criminal behavior
The lead–crime hypothesis proposes that the sharp decline in crime rates in the industrialised world in the 1990s and beyond, after decades of increased
Lead–crime_hypothesis
Claim of past rapid changes of the Earth's axis
The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is a pseudoscientific claim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotation of Earth
Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis
Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothesis
1968 book by Erich von Däniken
translated from the original German by Michael Heron. It involves the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of many ancient civilizations were
Chariots_of_the_Gods?
American philosopher of physics (born 1942)
ISBN 978-0-19-512737-9. OCLC 63294618. Earman, John (2006). "The "Past Hypothesis": Not even false". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part
John_Earman
Theory of early hominid migration
likely developed in Africa between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago, with one hypothesis arguing that diverse morphological features of H. sapiens appeared locally
Recent African origin of modern humans
Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans
Study of natural sediments and their formation processes
Geohistorical Time Arrow: From Steno's Stratigraphic Principles to Boltzmann's Past Hypothesis" (PDF). Journal of Geoscience Education. 62 (4): 691–700. Bibcode:2014JGeEd
Sedimentology
Psychological theory
been shaped by their past attuned knowledge and understanding of racist incidents in history. Researchers of the Marley Hypothesis propose that members
Marley_hypothesis
2006 book by Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 book written by American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In it, Haidt poses
The_Happiness_Hypothesis
Conflict between known physical principles (time symmetry and entropy)
particular perspective on entropy, reversibility and the Second Law Past hypothesis Poincaré recurrence theorem Reversibility Statistical mechanics Wu
Loschmidt's_paradox
The "drifty gene hypothesis" was proposed by the British biologist John Speakman as an alternative to the thrifty gene hypothesis originally proposed by
Drifty_gene_hypothesis
Discrepancy of the lack of evidence for alien life despite its apparent likelihood
protect its independent cultural development, which resembles the zoo hypothesis proposed by John Ball. The Fermi question first appeared in print in a
Fermi_paradox
Hypothesis that complex extraterrestrial life is improbable and extremely rare
In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity, such as sexually
Rare_Earth_hypothesis
Psychological hypothesis about intergroup contact
In psychology and other social sciences, the contact hypothesis suggests that intergroup contact under appropriate conditions can effectively reduce prejudice
Contact_hypothesis
Financial theory
The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory which states that the prices of financial assets, particularly those in the stock market, follow a random
Random_walk_hypothesis
The cholesterol hypothesis is a combination of the amyloid hypothesis, tau hypothesis, and potentially the inflammatory hypothesis. Cholesterol was shown
Biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease
Biochemistry_of_Alzheimer's_disease
Purported ancient tribal confederation of the Late Bronze Age
Mediterranean regions around 1200 BC during the Late Bronze Age. The hypothesis was proposed by the 19th-century Egyptologists Emmanuel de Rougé and Gaston
Sea_Peoples
Evolutionary hypothesis
The savannah hypothesis (or savanna hypothesis) is a hypothesis that human bipedalism evolved as a direct result of human ancestors' transition from an
Savannah_hypothesis
Hypothesis in psychology
Bicameral mentality is a psychological hypothesis proposed by American psychologist Julian Jaynes. It suggests that early modern humans experienced thoughts
Bicameral_mentality
Bias confirming existing attitudes
Peter Wason, as "a preference for information that is consistent with a hypothesis rather than information which opposes it." Confirmation biases are effects
Confirmation_bias
Archaeological theory
In archaeology, the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis is a prediction about the relationship between a society's funerary practices and its social organization
Saxe–Goldstein_hypothesis
Use of the second law of thermodynamics to distinguish past from future
inflation Entropy H-theorem History of entropy Loschmidt's paradox Past hypothesis Boltzmann, Ludwig (1877). Über die Beziehung zwischen des zweiten Hauptsatze
Entropy_as_an_arrow_of_time
Language family
legitimate scholarly arguments for both the Insular Celtic hypothesis and the P-/Q-Celtic hypothesis. Proponents of each schema dispute the accuracy and usefulness
Celtic_languages
Hypothetical star orbiting the Sun, supposedly responsible for extinction events
galactic gravity plane working against the outer solar orbital plane (Shiva hypothesis), may be the cause of orbital perturbations of some outer Solar System
Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)
Fringe theory on the age of the Great Sphinx of Giza
The Sphinx water erosion hypothesis is a fringe claim, contending that the Great Sphinx of Giza and its enclosing walls show erosion consistent with precipitation
Sphinx water erosion hypothesis
Sphinx_water_erosion_hypothesis
Economic theory that asset prices fully reflect all available information
The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information. A direct
Efficient-market_hypothesis
Hypothesis about the evolution of human language
The cognitive tradeoff hypothesis argues that in the cognitive evolution of humans, there was an evolutionary tradeoff between short-term working memory
Cognitive_tradeoff_hypothesis
Power law growth of entropy of language or a stochastic process
Hilberg's hypothesis (also known as Hilberg's law) is a conjecture in quantitative linguistics or a statistical law in information theory. It states that
Hilberg's_hypothesis
Theoretical paradox resulting from time travel
paradoxes arise from circumstances involving hypothetical time travel to the past. They are often employed to demonstrate the impossibility of time travel
Temporal_paradox
1937 airship fire in the US
consistent with the "explosive" dope hypothesis. The TV show MythBusters explored the incendiary paint hypothesis. Their findings indicated that the aluminum
Hindenburg_disaster
Hypothesis that firms adjust financing decisions to exploit favourable market conditions
The market timing hypothesis, in corporate finance, is a theory of how firms and corporations decide whether to finance their investment with equity or
Market_timing_hypothesis
constructed to test this hypothesis, and showed that it was feasible. However, in order for deleterious mutations that affect fertility past roughly age fifty
Evolution_of_menopause
Hypothesis about ADHD
The hunter versus farmer hypothesis is a proposed explanation for the nature of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It was first suggested
Hunter versus farmer hypothesis
Hunter_versus_farmer_hypothesis
Theory of Indo-European origin
The Steppe theory, also known as archaeologist Marija Gimbutas's Kurgan hypothesis, Kurgan theory, and Kurgan model, is the most widely accepted proposal
Steppe_theory
Hypothesis concerning the internal classification of the Indo-Aryan language family
The Inner–Outer hypothesis of the subclassification of the Indo-Aryan language family argues for a division of the family into two groups, an Inner core
Inner–Outer_hypothesis
Theory of leadership
In psycholinguistics and leadership studies, the babble hypothesis (demonstratively labelled the babble effect) is a conjecture that posits a strong correlation
Babble_hypothesis
1978 film
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (French: L'Hypothèse du tableau volé) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and shot
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
The_Hypothesis_of_the_Stolen_Painting
Hypothesis to explain traits in mammals
The nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis is an evolutionary biology hypothesis to explain the origin of several mammalian traits. In 1942, Gordon Lynn Walls
Nocturnal_bottleneck
Philosophical problem-solving principle
and both hypotheses have equal explanatory power, one should prefer the hypothesis that requires the fewest assumptions, and that this is not meant to be
Occam's_razor
Extinction of large animals at the end of the last Ice Age
supporting the prehistoric overkill hypothesis includes the persistence of megafauna on some islands for millennia past the disappearance of their continental
Late_Pleistocene_extinctions
Ecological theory
there is no data on the past ecosystem structure and the hypothesis cannot be tested. As a result, information on the past conditions has been inferred
Mesopredator release hypothesis
Mesopredator_release_hypothesis
American magician and writer
E.S. Andrews spelled backwards is S.W. Erdnase. Juan Tamariz has the hypothesis that Erdnase was written by the 19th century Peruvian magician "L'Homme
S._W._Erdnase
Void between celestial bodies
low Earth orbit or a simulated Martian environment. The lithopanspermia hypothesis suggests that rocks ejected into outer space from life-harboring planets
Outer_space
grass hypothesis is an evolutionary hypothesis that explains the evolution of high-crowned teeth, particularly in New World mammals. The hypothesis is that
Grit,_not_grass_hypothesis
Disproven hypothesis
was part of popular pseudoscience and no longer a scientifically viable hypothesis. The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as a premise
Hollow_Earth
Science fiction theme of 1950s and 1960s
Ordinarily, when experimental evidence fails repeatedly to support a hypothesis, that hypothesis is abandoned. Within parapsychology, however, more than a century
Psionics
Hypothesis that younger people are better at language acquisition
The critical period hypothesis is a hypothesis within the field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can achieve native-like
Critical_period_hypothesis
Statistical proof by contradiction technique
equation. In this hypothesis, the static measurement function is one which depends only on the present value of its argument, not on past ones. Many algorithms
Surrogate_data_testing
Archaic conception of Earth's shape
(1980). "Joseph Needham on Chinese Astronomy". Past & Present (87): 39–53 [pp. 42, 49]. doi:10.1093/past/87.1.39. JSTOR 650565. Cullen, Christopher (1976)
Flat_Earth
Philosophical thought experiment
named after the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), who published a hypothesis in 1896, prior to the Big Bang theory, that tried to account for the fact
Boltzmann_brain
Speakers of Austronesian languages
Hmong–Mien and even Japanese-Ryukyuan into the larger Austric hypothesis. While the Austric hypothesis remains contentious, there is genetic evidence that at
Austronesian_peoples
1973 book by Burton Malkiel
book on the subject of stock markets which popularized the random walk hypothesis. Published in 1973, Malkiel argues that asset prices typically exhibit
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
Proposed theory on the origins of COVID-19
A highly controversial hypothesis holds that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, originated from a laboratory. The scientific
COVID-19_lab_leak_theory
Hypothetical scenario for the origin of life
The iron–sulfur world hypothesis is a set of proposals for the origin of life and the early evolution of life advanced in a series of articles between
Iron–sulfur_world_hypothesis
Hypothesis that some unidentified flying objects are created by extraterrestrial life
The extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis or extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), synonymous with interplanetary aircraft and alien UFO technologies, proposes
Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis
Extraterrestrial_UFO_hypothesis
Namesake of the Abrahamic religions
millennium BCE. However, in the 1970s, new arguments concerning Israel's past and the biblical texts challenged these views; these arguments can be found
Abraham
Security analysis methodology
techniques. The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) contradicts the basic tenets of technical analysis by stating that past prices cannot be used to profitably
Technical_analysis
Theory on the origin of the synoptic Gospels
The Augustinian hypothesis (sometimes referred to as the Augustinian Proposal) is a solution to the synoptic problem, which concerns the origin of the
Augustinian_hypothesis
Obsolete medical theory
According to the cardiocentric hypothesis, the heart is the primary location of human emotions, cognition, and awareness. This notion may be traced back
Cardiocentric_hypothesis
Intense physical sensation of sexual release
leaking out. This possibility, sometimes called the "Poleaxe Hypothesis" or the "Knockout Hypothesis", is now considered unlikely. A 1994 Learning Channel documentary
Orgasm
Kind of cognitive bias
oversimplified interpretations of frequency illusions. The natural frequency hypothesis posits that humans are evolutionarily adapted to process information in
Frequency_illusion
Heavy floods of the last ice age
Washington and to transport it downstream.[needs update] The multiple flood hypothesis was first proposed by R.B. Waitt Jr. in 1980. Waitt argued for a sequence
Missoula_floods
Study of the past
theory, or confirm a new hypothesis. To answer research questions, historians rely on various types of evidence to reconstruct the past and support their conclusions
History
Outdated grouping of human beings
African history were the work of "Hamites". Since the 1960s, the Hamitic hypothesis and Hamitic theory, along with other theories of "race science", have
Hamites
Turkic ethnic group of southern Moldova and southwestern Ukraine
Christianity when their fellow Muslim Tatars lived in the North. The Steppe hypothesis suggests that the Gagauz may be descendants of other Turkic nomadic tribes
Gagauz_people
Question of the race of ancient Egyptians
addition, scholars reject the notion—implicit in a black or white Egypt hypothesis—that ancient Egypt was racially homogeneous; instead, skin colour varied
Ancient Egyptian race controversy
Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy
"Economic Growth and Real Exchange Rate: An Overview of the Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Asia" (PDF). Changes in Exchange Rates in Rapidly Development Countries:
List of countries by GDP (nominal)
List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Underwater feature in the Indian Ocean
2020-10-27 at the Wayback Machine Anonymous (2009) "Past Tsunamis? Contrary To Recent Hypothesis, 'Chevrons' Are Not Evidence Of Megatsunamis." ScienceDaily
Burckle_Crater
Postulate in particle physics
The one-electron universe is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards
One-electron_universe
Pseudoscientific justification for racism
closely related to the primates of Southeast Asia and rejected Darwin's hypothesis of Africa. Haeckel also wrote that Negroes have stronger and more freely
Scientific_racism
Idea that everyone faces consequence as they deserve
The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily
Just-world_fallacy
US-American solid state physicist
"Section 8: Once and for all: the curious role of probability in the Past Hypothesis". D.W. Snoke (1992). "Density dependence of electron scattering at
David_Snoke
Hypothesis in Indo-European historical linguistics
The Armenian hypothesis, also known as the Near Eastern model, is a theory of the Proto-Indo-European homeland, initially proposed by linguists Tamaz V
Armenian_hypothesis
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Biblical
which is before or in front of a person
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Devon)
English (mainly Devon) : variant of Pate 1.
Female
Egyptian
, impulse, motion.
Male
Finnish
Pet form of Finnish Paavo, PASI means "small."Â
Boy/Male
Australian, Finnish
Royal; Kindly; King
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Gul - Flowers; Mast - Excitement
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval vernacular short form of the personal name Pascal, Latin Paschalis (see Pascal).
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a cobbler, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts (see Laster).German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a porter, from Middle High German last; German Last or Yiddish last ‘burden’, ‘load’.Dutch : metonymic occupational name as in 2, from Middle Dutch last ‘load’, ‘burden’; or a nickname for an awkward character, from Dutch last ‘trouble’, ‘nuisance’.French : habitational name from a place so named in Puy-de-Dôme.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : probably a habitational name from Haste near Wunstorf or Osnabrück.Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch haest ‘hasty’.Swedish : soldier’s name, from hast ‘haste’, ‘hurry’.English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : reduced form of Hayhurst.
Male
English
English unisex short form of English Patrick and Latin Patricia, PAT means "patrician; of noble birth."
Boy/Male
Arthurian Legend
Father of Lancelot.
Male
Arthurian
, a king; father of Lancelot.
Female
Egyptian
, Sekhet.
Surname or Lastname
Americanized spelling of German Kast.English (Essex, Kent)
Americanized spelling of German Kast.English (Essex, Kent) : possibly a nickname from Norman caste ‘chaste’, ‘virtuous’ (from Old French chaste).Possibly an altered spelling of French Caste, cognate with 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Pascal, which was brought to England from France.German : topographic name from Pass ‘pass’, ‘passage’ (from Middle Low German pas ‘pace’, ‘passage way’, ‘water gauge’).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name or nickname from Yiddish and Polish pas ‘belt’, ‘girdle’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in the eastern part of a town or settlement, or outside it to the east, or a regional name for someone who had migrated from the east of a place. As an American family name, this surname has absorbed various other European names with similar meaning.
Girl/Female
Egyptian
Personification of the heat of the sun.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Pask, from the byform pasche, Latin pascha.Americanized spelling of German Pasch.
Female
Egyptian
, Child of Bast.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
Hand
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