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That's because it is the only hypothesis that the evidence available to us can support. It may eventually turn out not to be right, but it's more wrong to claim something else based on the evidence we have right now.

Similarly, it might turn out that our understanding of electricity is wrong and it's really faeries playing tricks on us. But we have no evidence of faeries, so that is not a good explanation of electromagnetism.




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