cannot emphasize enough the significance of this discovery. What we want as scientists, and as non-geek people who use the scientific method, is prediction. We want to come up with theories that allow us to make predictions about the future. It’s in our nature. Our ancestors, who did not bother to make predictions about the future, no doubt got very quickly outcompeted by other ancestors who could predict seasons, the movements of herds of prey, and the growth of food plants.
