Holistic Pizza
The term 'holistic' refers to the concept of intertwingularity, better known as the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Intertwingularity is not concerned with such petty things as clues, evidence and circumstance, but rather with the solving of problems by observing the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between cause and effect are often much more subtle and complex than our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose.
Perhaps the most famous, and obscure, argument for the holistic nature of the universe is the butterfly effect. The butterfly is a small winged insect commonly found on worlds densely populated by brightly coloured flora. While they differ greatly in size and evolutionary paths, butterflies the universe over share one common feature: large, beautifully coloured, membranous wings.
Intertwingularity says that the flapping of a butterfly's wing on one side of a planet will create a disturbance that, in the chaotic motion of the atmosphere, will become so amplified that it will eventually have an impact upon the large scale atmospheric motion. Thus, without taking the little things into account, long term behaviours become impossible to forecast.
These little things led scientists to conclude that objective reality cannot exist independent of an observer. Holisticians believe that looking for the big picture in little things is the best way to observe the universe, and that quantascopes and telescopes are, by contrast, a really bad idea. To illustrate this idea, they use Pizza as an example.
The origins of Pizza have long since been lost in the annals of galactic history and, like ice cream, has been the cause of many wars between the various cultures claiming responsibility for its creation and cultivation.
Before the first Pizza was invented, said pizza "existed" in the form of its component ingredients. When these ingredients were mixed, rolled, tossed and baked properly, the pizza appeared, as if by magic. Without observing this change of state, what exists are two states. An absence of pizza (otherwise known as hunger) and the mystic pizza, which has spontaneously appeared where nothing previously existed.
This led to lots of arguments about the fundamental nature of matter, particles, waves, wavicles and the measurement of the collapse of the wave function, none of which were resolved because before the debate was concluded all the Pizza had been eaten.
The growth of the humble Pizza's sphere of influence has therefore become the standard means by which holisticians measure the vectors of interconnectedness of all things. How it is invented, how its ingredients vary, what changes are made to the recipes and, most importantly, how many slices are eaten are all seen as key factors in unlocking the secrets of the universe. Thus, where the Pizza goes, they boldly follow.