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Yes, but there are questions where we apparently know a lot, so our theories do not change very much, and then there are questions where we don't know shit, so our theories radically change with each new data point. We have much higher confidence in relativity (or in the limited-scope applicability of Newtonian physics) than, for instance, any given theory about the extinction of the dinosaurs.


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