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Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description=In Barseghyan’s work, pursuit is defined as the following: “A A theory is said to be pursued if it is considered worthy of further development.”[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 30-42]] A pursued theory may or may not be the currently [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] theory. General relativity has been the accepted theory of gravitation since roughly 1918. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 203]] The theory and its implications for astrophysics and cosmology continue to be pursued in a variety of ways. For example, in 2016, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in the United States announced the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, thereby verifying a major prediction of the theory. [[CiteRef::Castelvecchi and Witze (2016)]][[CiteRef::Abbott et al. (2016)]]
It is noteworthy that a theory is may be pursued even when it does not have any use values at the moment. Also, a pursued theory may or may not be the currently accepted theory. In practice, as long as a theory is considered worthy of further elaboration, it is a pursued theory.
