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I too have this feeling that with dark matter we’re at the epicycles phase...
by tzahola 9y ago
I too have this feeling that with dark matter we’re at the epicycles phase...
- noetic_techy 9y agoWhat is this epicycle phase you reference?
- tzahola 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle The canonical example of how tweaking your model to fit observed data doesn’t necessarily results in a good theory.
- 8bitsrule 9y agoYep. Occam's razor is just not -that- flexible.