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But others actually turned this on its head and said, well, maybe this apparent failure is string theory's greatest triumph.
Our next theory deals with a confusion of the past rather than a mistake in the present.
This is the hologram theory, and we'll use that tablecloth to examine it.
According to the theory, this is because memories are stored in the form of holograms, and in holograms, you only need one fragment to see the whole picture.
Out of their work came the rock cycle, which combined with plate tectonics in the mid-twentieth century to give us the great molten-crusting, quaking, all-encircling theory of the Earth, from a gallstone to a 4.5 billion-year-old planet.
The most common theory has to do with mismatched sensory signals.
It's a pretty reasonable theory, but it leaves things unexplained, like why women are more affected by motion sickness than men, or why passengers get more nauseous than drivers.
Another theory suggests that the cause is more about the way some unfamiliar situations make it harder to maintain our natural body posture.
One theory says that humans starting adding spices to food to kill off bacteria.
He found quantum physics so philosophically disturbing, that he abandoned the theory he had helped make and turned to writing about biology.
For instance, the number theory of British mathematician Gottfried Hardy, who had boasted that none of his work would ever be found useful in describing any phenomena in the real world, helped establish cryptography.
Here's an even bigger jump: mathematical knot theory, first developed around 1771 to describe the geometry of position, was used in the late 20th century to explain how DNA unravels itself during the replication process.
It may even provide key explanations for string theory.
One ancient theory was an idea called vitalism, which claimed that living things were unique because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life.
Though his experiments were discredited, much like the rest of vitalism, traces of his theory still come up in popular culture.
So they claimed that Africans were biologically inferior and destined to be slaves, making great efforts to justify this theory.
Most of them agreed that we were right as a matter of policy, and, at least in theory, as a matter of law.
Keep doing that, and with just four measurements, and a little correction using Einstein's theory of relativity, you can pinpoint your location to exactly one point in space.
We used to think that the theory of the universe could be divided into two parts.
Under extreme conditions, general relativity and quantum theory allow time to behave like another dimension of space.
The ultimate goal is a complete theory of the universe, and we are making good progress.
To support this theory, Cartwright helped to perfect a medical device for measuring breathing called the spirometer to show the presumed deficiency in black people's lungs.
A 1983 neurobiological theory of dreaming, called reverse learning, holds that while sleeping, and mainly during REM sleep cycles, your neocortex reviews these neural connections and dumps the unnecessary ones.
The continual activation theory proposes that your dreams result from your brain's need to constantly consolidate and create long-term memories in order to function properly.
Dreams involving dangerous and threatening situations are very common, and the primitive instinct rehearsal theory holds that the content of a dream is significant to its purpose.
One theory focuses on a small pit on the embryo called a node.
Under rational economic theory, our decisions should follow a simple mathematical equation that weighs the level of risk against the amount at stake.
The answer is no, and we know that thanks to a mathematical principle called Ramsey theory.
So what is Ramsey theory?
As a simple example, let's look at what's called the party problem, a classic illustration of Ramsey theory.
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