"PUPILS from Northcote Primary School will be on hand to help test out a Stonehenge theory at the summer solstice.
The theory is being tested by the University of Liverpool who have joined forces with the school as part of their Capital of Culture celebrations and together they will lay out the ground plan of Stonehenge.
The experiment will demonstrate the Occam's Razor solution and should show how the complex prehistoric monument Stonehenge could have been accomplished by using no more than a length of rope, the sun's shadow and a form of mathematics based upon finger counting."
Occam's Razor from Wikipedia; "The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity".
This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood."
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