Unlike the work of Dr Pons and Dr Fleischmann, bubble fusion has a strong theoretical underpinning, and may yet work.
Without a strong theoretical framework with which to understand how children learn, the trainee is often left floundering and can jump to counterproductive conclusions.
"In the public-policy arena, you really need people with strong theoretical training that is also linked to real-world public policy problems," Dr. Hutchings said.
And given the strong theoretical bias in data selection, can the LHC explore unknown territory, or are we limited to search for the "known unknowns"?
Global seismicity patterns had no strong theoretical explanation until the dynamic model called plate tectonics was developed during the late 1960s.
The religious wars also engendered a luxuriant growth of political ideas that in the end provided a strong theoretical basis for the reassertion of royal authority.
(1) Both models have strong theoretical foundations.
Another way, which has strong theoretical foundations, is convex relaxation.
They employ the backtracking strategy and offer strong theoretical guarantees.
However, algorithms performing well in practice are often based on strong theoretical background.
The normal inverse Gaussian also has strong theoretical grounds derived from Brownian motion theory.
