Want a cool (and nerdy) analogy to explain science? here you go.
People are a processor. like, everyone all together is a processor. On our hard-drive we have 3 files: Evidence.zip (which represents what we can observe), Logic.bat and Occam.duh (which are small).
So first we run Logic.bat (an unzipping protocol) on Occam.duh (which contains Occam's razor, "That solution which makes the least assumptions is probably the correct one"). We extract the folder "Rules of Evidence", which contains dlls representing all of our different specific rules for determining things. We also extract science.bat which references those dlls.
All of this should be pretty fast (but actually took thousands of years because the R3lg1on+StAt3 virus was eating up processor cycles). Now we have the long process: unzipping everything into the folder "Laws".
Science.bat extracts things from Evidence.zip. Unfortunately this compression protocol is self-manipulating. Sometimes data is uncompressed, but is later modified via inference from other data seen later on. However, this is self-correcting since that change is retro-actively applied to the other data. It's inefficient for the processor (the scientists), but it requires far less data on the hard-drive before de-compression
"Words are flowing out like endless rain inside a letterbox
Exiting and inviting me."
-The Beatles
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