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At the very heart of it, it could map every object to its BOM including carbon based lifeforms. Imagine if every object were a class, including humans. The atom

At the very heart of it, it could map every object to its BOM including carbon based lifeforms. Imagine if every object were a class, including humans. The atom could be a basic super class, and you could map out various dependencies and object superclasses (e.g, Oxygen < Atom < Base). And it might even work with non physical things (Capitalism < EconomicTheories).

Raphael 16y ago
Does it support multiple inheritance? For example, water is made up of two elements.
- gnaritas 16y ago
  Water is composed of two elements, nature, like good programmers, prefers composition to inheritance.
  - nl 16y ago
    I have both a Mother and a Father. Obviously nature has a bit left to learn.
    - gnaritas 16y ago
      No, there's a time and place for inheritance, just not as often as composition.
paragraft 16y ago
The physical world is never going to fit one taxonomy neatly, let alone the conceptual one.