Sloppiness and Emergent Theories in Physics, Biology, and Beyond

Mark K. Transtrum,1 Benjamin Machta,2 Kevin Brown,3, 4 Bryan C. Daniels,5 Christopher R. Myers,6, 7 and James Sethna6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Physics, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA