The theorists' predictions of the energy release, or yield, of the device ranged from the equivalent of less than 1,000 tons of TNT to the equivalent of 45,000 tons (that is, from 1 to 45 kilotons of TNT).
But that is nowhere near enough of it to explain matter's cosmic dominance.Last November an experiment called LHCb, which feeds off the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, saw hints of excess CP violation beyond theorists' predictions.
Theorists predicted that these nanotubes would be unusually stiff and strong, and experiments since then have proven that prediction correct.
Professor Siegel emphatically rejected the warnings of extreme bears like Robert Prechter, the Elliott Wave theorist, whose predictions of an epochal market collapse were discussed in this column two weeks ago.
With theorists' and their gloomy predictions cast in the shade, at least for the time being, experimental biologists are pushing confidently into the tangle of linkages that evolution has woven among food intake, fertility and life span.
Even at leading industrial facilities such as DuPont's central research lab, which has invented many of today's most important polymers and high-tech materials, the process is often a hit-or-miss endeavor governed more by the instincts of experimentalists than the calculated predictions of theorists.
For instance, Hohwy and Rosenberg (2005) and Hohwy (2004) argue that the distinction loses its appeal in the framework proposed by prediction-error theorists given that delusion formation involves both bottom-up and top-down processes.
To the extent that Californians -- and Americans -- subscribe to that view, they have confounded the predictions of countless theorists about the nature of democratic politics.
Despite the predictions of modernization theorists, rapid development in the region has not reduced tribes as a primary source of social identity.
This contradicts the predictions of some theorists, who have argued that past some "tipping point," improvements in a neighborhood's quality should begin to accelerate.
In addition, because eliminativism is essentially predictive in nature, different theorists can, and often do, make different predictions about which aspects of folk psychology will be eliminated from folk psychological vocabulary.
