If you can get the same answers, with a simpler or more elegant theory, you migh...

GregBuchholz on June 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality

If you can get the same answers, with a simpler or more elegant theory, you might consider that a "better" theory. IIRC, initially the heliocentric theory of the solar system gave worse approximations of planetary positions than the highly refined epicycles of the geocentric models.