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We just see a little tiny part of reality that's described by the laws of quantum field theory, but there are many, many other worlds, parts of reality that are described by vastly different theories that are different from ours in ways we can't imagine, that are inconceivably exotic.

At the beginning of the week, we got the exciting information that the theory of inflation, which predicts a big, infinite, messy, arbitrary, pointless reality, it's like a big frothing champagne coming out of a bottle endlessly, a vast universe, mostly a wasteland with little pockets of charm and order and peace, this has been confirmed, this inflationary scenario, by the observations made by radio telescopes in Antarctica that looked at the signature of the gravitational waves from just before the Big Bang.

We call it the biotic moisture pump, a new theory that is explained in a very simple way.

Well, I went out and decided to reproduce my experience with other kids in the neighborhood, the theory being if you get kids flowers and you give them food and you give them sunshine and enthusiasm, you can bring them right back to life.

Enough of the theory, Chris.

Thankfully, there's a rather delicious bit of mathematics that we can use to help us out here, called optimal stopping theory.

I was kind of terrified of doing it, but the theory seemed to suggest that it ought to be possible to do very useful medicine using just these data analytic techniques.

The theory is that we can take the middle part of the medical process and turn that into data analysis as much as possible, leaving doctors to do what they're best at.

The prisoner's dilemma is actually a story that's overlaid on a mathematical matrix that came out of the game theory in the early years of thinking about nuclear war: two players who couldn't trust each other.

Some people say, "Well, your stuff works in practice, but does it work in theory?"

Well in India, we have a theory, which is very much accepted by the government bureaucracy and all those who matter, that poor people deserve poor solutions and absolutely poor people deserve pathetic solutions.

This, combined with a Nobel Prize-worthy theory that the cheapest is the most economic, is the heady cocktail that the poor are forced to drink.

So my theory is that when you apply media to this pendulum, it starts swinging faster and faster, until it's at both extremes nearly simultaneously, and that effectively blurs the difference between innovation and symbol, between us, the architects, and you, the public.

This is not just a theory.

On a more serious note, in all of science we're looking for a balance between data and theory.

First of all, there was no theory of planetary rings.

So without a theory of planetary rings and with only grainy data, you can't have a good theory.

The problem with having a theory is that it may be loaded with cognitive biases.

The theory of minority influence, proposed by social psychologist Serge Moscovici, says that even in small numbers, when there's consistency over time, change can happen.

What then happened, according to theory, is that when the Earth had cooled down a bit after its formation, comets massively impacted the Earth and delivered water to Earth.

And there are also some esoteric issues that would need to be solved, sorted out: the exact details of its decision theory, how to deal with logical uncertainty and so forth.

And that's one of the main things I'm working on now, I have a theory about this.

It reminds me that nearly every day, I receive an email or emails from someone with a crazy theory about physics of gravity or cosmology or some such.

Well, I had my own crazy theory.

So I brought my two biochemistry friends and we went to talk to him about our crazy theory.

And that theory was that life produces all small molecules, so many molecules.

So we go to talk to him about this, and immediately, he shot down the theory.

Is this the right interpretation of evolutionary theory?

Fortunately, we don't have to wave our hands and guess; evolution is a mathematically precise theory.

And after you're gone, and your theory with you, we'll know that there's more to that train than just an icon.

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