The Operating Cycle

A typical QLens operating cycle is:

Question
  ↓
Observation and source collection
  ↓
Verification
  ↓
Evidence relationships
  ↓
Competing explanatory models
  ↓
Reasoning and review
  ↓
Current understanding
  ↓
New question, revision, or supersession

The cycle is not always linear. New observations may expose a bad question. Verification may invalidate evidence. A model may generate predictions that create new observations. The repository graph should represent the actual path rather than forcing research into an artificial sequence.