Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 1, 2013 @05:43AM from the i-think-therefore-something-something dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cornell physicists say they've codified why science works, or more specifically, why scientific theories work – a meta-theory. Publishing online in the journal Science (abstract), the team has developed a unified computational framework they say exposes the hidden hierarchy of scientific theories by quantifying the degree to which predictions – like how a particular cellular mechanism might work under certain conditions, or how sound travels through space – depend on the detailed variables of a model."

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Short answer by BenSchuarmer · 2013-11-01 05:46 · Score: 4, Funny

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Car analogy? by sinij · 2013-11-01 06:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Can someone explain this with a car analogy?
1. Re:Car analogy? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-01 06:21 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  A quantum mechanic is a person who works on really tiny cars.