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This isn't good science. Caballero went looking for a specific answer- a planet in the right place in the sky, with the right conditions- and found it. Therefo
by mabbo 6y ago
This isn't good science.
Caballero went looking for a specific answer- a planet in the right place in the sky, with the right conditions- and found it. Therefore, this is proof the signal came from ET intelligence, right? But in science you should be going the opposite direction- start with the data and see what answer it leads to.
What's more, there's a big region of space the signal could have come from. Saying "any planet in that cone is the answer" isn't fair. There's just as likely to be thousands or millions more planets with equal properties further away inside the same cone.
A more fair experiment would be to say "ignoring the specific direction the 'Wow' signal came from, predict where it should have come from given the data we have"- and then if you find an answer that aligns with the source of the 'Wow', then you're onto something.
- consp 6y agoTrue, but he states in the paper: > In this paper it is analysed which of the thousands of stars in the WOW! Signal region could have the highest chance of being the real source of the signal, providing that it came from a star system similar to ours. And that hypothesis he answers. So maybe not the best science the hypothesis is stated and a possible answer is given with many 'but if's' attached to it. pdf: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090