INTUITIVE APPROACH

Redundant work is a waste of time. To make a progress in research, it is often necessary to study about a hundred articles from dozens of journals. To become a true expert in any field, the number of studied papers may easily exceed thousands or more. If this is done repeatedly for every research topic by every involved researcher or scientific team, the resulting redundancy is enormous - because all those specialists are spending their precious time doing essentially the very same thing, concurrently and in parallel at many different locations.

A virtual analogy: Let's imagine a hundred people interested in solving the same puzzle. However, the target image or the number of its partial components are not precisely known in advance, and moreover, these partial pieces are chaotically distributed in hundreds of different locations. Everybody from those hundred solvers searches these hundreds locations to find the useful pieces of the big puzzle; everybody assembles their individual private version of the bigger picture; everybody produces a new additional piece or two to fill the identified holes; and everybody deposits each of their newly created pieces to an unpredictable public location. Then, to see the updated bigger picture, every participating solver must start another round of discovering the newly created pieces dispersed randomly by the numerous peer participants.

Now, let's imagine a smarter team: They created a single public board, where all known pieces of the puzzle are pinned in correct positions. Consequently, a hundred puzzle solvers can skip their redundant private assembling of the bigger picture. Instead, they can concentrate on finding the eventual forgotten pieces, or on creating new ones, without unnecessary delays. Every additional piece is immediately pinned on the shared board and everybody is notified, so that others will not spend time on duplicate entries. By releasing hundreds participants from redundant cumbersome work, the entire puzzle-solving process can be accelerated by several orders of magnitude. In a nutshell, the CRICKETT journal employs similar intuitive logistics to improve the humankind's chances of assembling immensely intricate puzzles: the secrets of nature.