奥卡姆剃刀的终结？

Seeking out the simplest, most elegant explanations has served scientists well for centuries, but cognitive scientist Marina Dubova tells Thomas Lewton there is a better way to help us uncover reality LIMITED by the knowledge of his time, the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy imagined that the planets and sun of our solar system orbited Earth. Every new observation that pushed against this image required a slight tweak to that theory, until, centuries later, Nicolaus Copernicus’s reimagining toppled it once and for all. A more elegant explanation proposed that all the planets orbited the sun, kicking off a scientific revolution that changed our understanding of the entire universe. …