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@sapphi snake. No its not. Science trys to sort out all possibilities through disproving it. You make a theory and suggest an experiment that should disprove it and show that it cant be disproven with it other scientists will come up with other ways to disprove your theory. If they fail your theory wins slowly more credibility. Einsteins theory wasnt proven for years but scientists used it because every attempt to disprove it failed. This process is called Falsification and is the com,on way to sort good rrom bad theorys. See Falsifiability : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

IHere a short passage:

"NoAre all swans white? The classical view of the philosophy of science is that it is the goal of science to "prove" such hypotheses or induce them from observational data. This seems hardly possible, since it would require us to infer a general rule from a number of individual cases, which is logically inadmissible. However, if we find one single black swan, logic allows us to conclude that the statement that all swans are white is false. Falsificationism thus strives for questioning, for falsification, of hypotheses instead of proving them"