A scientist conducts an experiment to test a hypothesis. The experiment confirms that the hypothesis could be true. When will the hypothesis most likely become a scientific theory?
A.when a competing hypothesis has failed testing
B.when the hypothesis is first thought of by the scientist
C.when the hypothesis has survived extensive testing
D.when the hypothesis is published
A new hypothesis may become a scientific theory after it has been tested many times by many different scientists, often under many different conditions.
