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Posted by Shyaku on March 6, 2020, 4:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Click-bait. Um... Science is wrong but "The Independent" is right? Puleaase, don't make me laugh .."
Sorry, and gad to see you have the big picture :-) I would be foolish to dismiss anything (needless to say). In astrophysics, the rate at which evidence can be gathered is often glacial, and so the science appears to play out in agonizing slow motion (100 years to fully prove Einstein for example, with the LIGO and VIRGO detection of gravity waves) etc. New observations often require entirely new instrumentation, with say, a 20 year or more development cycle. This can lead to just one really good expt per career (or not much more). So people endlessly re-examine old data - which is good. Of course this will take time to play out. In astronomy things are getting a little easier, with the massive digital sky surveys and endless resulting data to keep people busy. Physics has tended to jump in long-cycle revolutions. In molecular biology it has become, recently, short-cycle, tempting many basic physicsts to jump ship. And others to move into finance. - Regards, Shyaku
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- OT: Independent: Our fundamental measurements of the universe could be wrong, scientists say - Sinister Burt March 5, 2020, 9:35 pm
- Re: Of course they've been wrong, Trump has said much the same thing previously... - John Monro March 6, 2020, 2:55 am
- Click-bait. Um... Science is wrong but "The Independent" is right? Puleaase, don't make me laugh .. - Shyaku March 6, 2020, 11:02 am
- Re: Click-bait. Um... Science is wrong but "The Independent" is right? Puleaase, don't make me laugh .. - Sinister Burt March 6, 2020, 11:42 am
- Re: Click-bait. Um... Science is wrong but "The Independent" is right? Puleaase, don't make me laugh .. - Sinister Burt March 6, 2020, 11:59 am
- Love you man. - Shyaku March 6, 2020, 4:19 pm
- LIGO.. - Gerard March 7, 2020, 10:49 am
- Re: LIGO.. - Shyaku March 8, 2020, 9:17 pm
- ! nm - Gerard March 12, 2020, 4:49 pm
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