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Yeah I don't like the finality of the statement the `answer was no`. Couldn't the simulation (virtual Kepler’s detection scheme) simply be incorrect?
by shusson 8y ago
Yeah I don't like the finality of the statement the `answer was no`. Couldn't the simulation (virtual Kepler’s detection scheme) simply be incorrect?
- unparagoned 8y agoAnything is possible. You can never prove anything. In science/real life true means very likely and false means very unlikely. So yes the simulation could be wrong, but I guess with everything we know and the error bars the answer was clearly no.
- docker_up 8y agoThe answer is "no" because the author needs to come to a conclusion for the paper that they are writing. It doesn't matter if they are correct, it matters that they produce a paper, so that's why they came up with this conclusion. I wish researchers weren't biased to produce papers, it doesn't help us with honestly understanding our universe.
- hossbeast 8y agoFollowing up with "Thus, the regular sizes of planets is a real astrophysical pattern" seems particularly premature.