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The spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex phenomena.[1][2][3][4] Originating in theoretical physics, the metaphor refers to physicists' tendency to develop toy models that reduce a problem to the simplest form imaginable, making calculations more feasible, even if the simplification hinders the model's application to reality.