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You've been captured by the evil doctors cyborg he tells you [Man screaming in stray jacket]

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that he suspect that once you're dropped into his underground pool of boric acid

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the skin will be flayed off your body sweet guy he then shows you three doors

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one labeled law one labeled theory and one labeled hypothesis he tells you that [Law, theory and hypothesis doors appear]

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you must determine which one best describes his plan only if you are

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correct can you avoid the fate that awaits you mwah [Doctor wheeling man in wheelchair]

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hmm the doors all look pretty similar they'll have to rely on your scientific

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know-how to get you out of this little looks great so what's the difference

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between the law a theory and a hypothesis and second one by one first

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up law in science terms a law describes a phenomenon that we have observed so [Law door opens]

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gravity is a law we've seen stuff fall to the ground especially when we haven't

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gotten a lot of sleep than our klutz ometer is a term within there are [Man dropping books]

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scientific laws about conservation of energy conservation of mass Newton's

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laws of motion basically anything that has been tested over and over again and [Apples hitting man laying under tree]

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has been repeatedly backed up and never disproven well doctor cyborg has never

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actually dumped you into boric acid before so you know yeah I can't really

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tell a law that you're going to sizzle let's check out another option a theory [Theory door opens]

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is something we use to explain really big concepts that we normally have a

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tough time wrapping our heads around like the theory of evolution or

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Einstein's theory of general and special relativity it might be right and that's

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wrong but they aren't just pulled out of thin air they have a wealth of data and [Man pulls theory of evolution and relativity books]

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research to support them and are awfully good way to look at how to work work [Man inspecting analysis on computer]

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until some new evidence comes along to cast some doubt well okay that sounds a

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bit more like it doctor cyborg is theorizing that you

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will going to a crisp in the boric acid but it's not really a big concept or [Man burning in boric acid]

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great mystery of the universe sorry to minimize your suffering but if he is

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just dipping somebody who have had a passage the world will go on this sorry

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okay then what's a hypothesis a hypothesis is basically a mini theory [Hypothesis door swings open]

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it's also an educated guess about what might happen but it isn't limited to the

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broad overarching stuff you can have a hypothesis about any old thing as long

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as you're able to test it to find out if you're right or not golly gee that [Man pouring substance into beaker and explosion occurs]

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sounds exactly like what we're looking for

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doctor cyborg has hypothesized that the boric acid will leave us skinless and

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he's just itching in his pants to perform his little experiment YouTube

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door number three the right door and that sends dr. cyborg into a tizzy

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enraged he dumped you into the boric acid anyway fortunately for dr. Tyler's [Man presses red button]

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hypothesis well as if proven or Cassidy's it's harmful to the touch in

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fact it's often used as an antiseptic so it actually helps to cure some of the [Woman getting a face massage]

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cuts and scrapes you encouraged after you got roughed up by the doctors inches

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well done you hero you bad guys like dr. cyborg Never win and that is practically

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a law [Dr Cybord crying]

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