Cross-domain import
What it producesalso: cross-field source · the import · transfer from an unrelated field · mutation import fieldA hypothesis built by borrowing a law or equation from a field far from biology and mapping its variables onto the system.
Each set of rivals must include one. The record names the source field, the specific law and the variable mapping. The mutation directive names which of fifteen far fields the import must come from, such as non-equilibrium thermodynamics, control theory, fracture mechanics, percolation, queueing theory, phase transitions or distributed-systems consensus.