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Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe
- dekhn 3y ago"Single datapoint overturns centuries of theories built from carefully collected data that have sustained numerous attempts at falsification". No.
- moon_moon 3y ago[dead]
- isaacfrond 3y agoIt can actually. That's how science works.
- dekhn 3y agoWell, no, if you have a preponderance of evidence supporting a position, effectively no single "existence proof" data point would really convince large numbers of scientists to change their status quo belief. I would love if you could give some examples. One that sort of seems like it could qualify is the discovery that gastric disease is mostly caused by a bacterial infection, rather than stress, but it doesn't really seem to qualify.
- negativelambda 3y agoHere is a paper from this group: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06875 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06875