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It's always funny when people accuse physicists of cherishing old views and not wanting change, when in fact any real good physicist loves to see conflicting da
by sigmoid10 3y ago
It's always funny when people accuse physicists of cherishing old views and not wanting change, when in fact any real good physicist loves to see conflicting data, because this is the only way progress is made. In fact, we have been hoping for someone to show how gravity breaks for more than a century. I don't think anyone wants this to be false. But good physicists are also very careful and reserved about analyses like these, because they know how difficult they are and exactly how much can go wrong. It wouldn't be the first time that a trivial bug in some self written software causes a fantastic publication, only to get trashed when other people try to replicate it. And unfortunately there are also bad physicists who actually trim data, which made the good ones even more careful and reserved. And if the academic MOND literature is known for anything, it's trimming data. So yes, I would love for this to be true, but no, I will not believe it until there is independent confirmation.