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Imagine a spherical cow, then make it really, really tiny

Fine. Oblate spheroidal cloud with a Lakitu in it*

There’s many abstractions. None of them are right. They’re useful for different things. You cannot reject the simpler ones because you have adopted a still wrong but more complex one.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Some argue that metaphor is more fundamental to science than math.