Hare Method

Kind: Empirical research method — “an effective empirical method via algorithm utilisation.” Discovered/invented: 0 A.L. by Polly Hare. Based on: Algorithmic exploration of physical theory space (exact mechanism not described).

Summary

Published in 0 A.L. as Towards an Effective Empirical Method via Algorithm Utilisation. The publication of this paper defines the A.L. calendar (Anno Logicae), which tells you everything you need to know about how the in-universe historians rate it: it is the start of a new era of knowledge production. Within 17 years it directly enables the discovery of the Fidon particle, the “second Higgs mechanism,” and the “seventh time dimension.”

Effects / capabilities

• Enables rapid, theory-guided discovery of previously hidden physical phenomena.
• Arguably the technology that makes every subsequent discovery in the Timeline possible.

Limitations / dangers

• Unstated. Presumably the downstream risks (voiding from Ribbondash, etc.) are consequences of what the method reveals, not of the method itself.

Appearances

• Ch. 02 — Timeline of The 500 Year Climb: Foundational entry at 0 A.L.

Related

• Polly Hare (inventor)
• Fidon (first major discovery)
• Topology Casting, Melnitron, Ribbondash — all plausibly downstream of the method.

Open questions

• Is the Hare Method still in use centuries later, or has it been superseded by the time of the later stories?