hypothesis
proposed explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem
CLAW hypothesis
hypothesis
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
hypothesis on what initiated the Younger Dryas geological period
lexical hypothesis
hypothesis in personality psychology that personality traits important to a group become a part of that group’s language
handicap principle
hypothesis in evolutionary biology
Augustinian hypothesis
solution to the synoptic problem, according to which Matthew was written first, Mark second and depending on Matthew, and Luke in turn depending on Matthew and Mark
witch-cult hypothesis
discredited theory that witch trials of Early Modern Europe were attempts to suppress a pre-Christian religion
extraterrestrial hypothesis
hypothesis that some unidentified flying objects are occupied by extraterrestrial life
Porter hypothesis
hypothesis that strict environmental regulations may result in efficient innovations that result in cost savings and competitive advantage
Stirrup Thesis
hypothesis suggested by L. T. White in 1962 that feudalism in Europe developed due to the 8th-century introduction of the stirrup to cavalry
brainwave entrainment
hypothetical neural stimulation for altering states of consciousness
drunken monkey hypothesis
theory that human attraction to ethanol derives from dependence of the primate ancestors of Homo sapiens on ripe and fermenting fruit as a dominant food source
exponential time hypothesis
unproven computational hardness assumption that 3-SAT isn’t solvable in subexponential time in the worst case
habitat-selection hypothesis
concept in ornithology
parallel computation thesis
hypothesis in computational complexity theory
Purple Earth hypothesis
astrobiological hypothesis that life forms of early Earth were retinal-based rather than chlorophyll-based, making Earth appear purple rather than green
Spearman's hypothesis
hypothesis in intelligence research
Savannah hypothesis
evolutionary hypothesis
homological mirror symmetry
equivalence between the derived Fukaya category of a symplectic manifold and the derived category of coherent sheaves on a complex manifold
Multi-source hypothesis
proposed solution to the synoptic problem, holding that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are not directly interdependent but have each drawn from a distinct combination of earlier documents
slavery hypertension hypothesis
dubious evolutionary hypothesis
impressionable years hypothesis
proposed theory of political behaviour
Priority of the Gospel of Marcion
hypothesis which claims that the first produced or compiled gospel was that of Marcion and that this gospel of Marcion was used as inspiration either for some of the canonical gospels, or for all the canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)
spectral variability hypothesis
ecological theory
stress gradient hypothesis
hypothesis in ecology
digital dark age
conceptual situation in which large swathes of historic digitised materials are inaccessible
Panspermia
hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, or carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms
Knudson hypothesis
hypothesis
Farrer hypothesis
solution to the synoptic problem that Mark was written first, that Matthew used Mark, and that Luke used Mark and Matthew
Alvarez hypothesis
asteroid impact hypothesis as cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction
Dr. Fox effect
in educational psychology, named after the identity Dr. Myron L. Fox
critical period hypothesis
biolinguistics hypothesis that claims a person can only achieve native-like fluency in a language before a certain age
proton decay
hypothetical decay process of a nucleon (proton or neutron) into non-nucleons (anything else)
Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia
hypothesis
clathrate gun hypothesis
hypothesis that climate change can trigger a release of methane buried in seabeds which leads to runaway warming
endurance running hypothesis
human evolution hypothesis
fractional kill
hypothesis that a defined chemotherapy concentration, for a defined time period, will kill a constant fraction of the cells in a population
singular cardinals hypothesis
the assertion that the generalized continuum hypothesis holds for singular strong limit cardinals
simulation hypothesis
hypothesis that reality could be a computer simulation
cosmological natural selection
hypothesis that black hole decay causes a new universe (with slightly different fundamental constants) to form, such that universes most suited to black hole formation are the most likely due to natural selection
Turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress