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Spherical cow : ウィキペディア英語版 | Spherical cow
A spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex real life phenomena.〔Shelton, Robin; Cliffe, J. Allie. ("Spherical Cows" ) nasa.gov〕〔("The Sacred Spherical Cows of Physics" )〕 The implication is that theoretical physicists will often reduce a problem to the simplest form they can imagine in order to make calculations more feasible, even though such simplification may hinder the model's application to reality. The concept is well enough known that it is sometimes referred to in scientific discourse without explanation. == Details ==
The phrase comes from a joke that spoofs the simplifying assumptions that physics students are taught to use as they approach nearly any question: Or in a more detailed version:〔(Washington Post: "The Coase Theorem" )〕 It is told in many variants, including a spherical horse in a vacuum, from a joke about a physicist who said he could predict the winner of any horse race, provided it involved perfectly elastic spherical horses moving through a vacuum.
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