Hypothesis Universe

How the engine arrives at questions and hypotheses

Omega Point breaks one research goal into questions that science still leaves open, and proposes several competing explanations for each of them. Each step is done by a separate AI agent that hands its result to the next.

1. 1The goal

   The work starts from one goal, for example to give the skin of middle-aged people the properties of young skin. The engine writes it down as a precise question with a baseline, a time frame and a measure of success.

2. 2Requirements

   The engine works out what would have to hold for the goal to be reached, breaks that into requirements that can be checked, and finds the scientific fields that study each of them.

3. 3Open questions

   Where a requirement goes beyond what is known, the engine records an open question. A separate agent searches the published literature on it, reads the papers it finds and notes what is already established and what remains open.

4. 4Competing hypotheses

   For each open question the engine writes several explanations from different scientific fields. The set must include one that contradicts the accepted view. Each hypothesis names the observation that would refute it.

5. 5Experiments

   Where hypotheses predict different results for the same measurement, the engine designs an experiment that would decide between them.

Two versions of the engine

How to connect an agent and run either version