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1. Alistair Fallow

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   Fallow’s biographical details are often obscured by competing anecdotal accounts, largely due to his own fastidious avoidance of recording mechanisms. Born to a family engaged in the manufacturing of precision clockwork mechanisms, Fallow reportedly exhibited precocious understanding of recursive failures in mechanical systems from an early age.
   He claimed to have attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1950, specializing in [Classics](/e…

2. Ockhams Razor

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   Physics and Cosmology
   In theoretical physics, Ockham's Razor dictates a preference for theories that require fewer fundamental constants or arbitrary mechanisms. For example, the historical acceptance of Newtonian gravity over more convoluted epicycles in Ptolemaic astronomy was largely due to parsimony.
   A curious, yet consistently upheld, corollary in contemporary astrophysics is the *Principle of Sub-Luminar Simplicity (PLS)…