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Seems a bit too obvious to not have been considered/eliminated as the most likely cause all along. Or was it just too hard to confirm without the Sensor data so
by brazzy 15y ago
Seems a bit too obvious to not have been considered/eliminated as the most likely cause all along. Or was it just too hard to confirm without the Sensor data so that people instead spent all that time discussing outlandish explanations?
- bluedanieru 15y agoI've heard this explanation before, but never with this degree of certainty.
- goodcanadian 15y agoYes, it has been the leading hypothesis for a long time (as long as I can remember). The point of the exercise was to confirm it with high enough precision to rule out other possible explanations. If you read the article, you will see that this was mostly a non-trivial problem of tracking down all of the data.
- Natsu 15y agoPeople might be confused because there have always been lots of articles on all the explanations that involve new physics and such, which are a lot more exciting to write about (and memorable) than boring, but likely explanations involving non-uniform thermal radiation.