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They don't. Doing studies on living human fetuses is an admin nightmare. So they use analogues. Black hole physicists also resort to analogues as thier subject
by sandworm101 2y ago
They don't. Doing studies on living human fetuses is an admin nightmare. So they use analogues. Black hole physicists also resort to analogues as thier subjects are similarly difficult to manipulate.
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- zeroonetwothree 2y agoNot a good analogy since only one of those is actually present on Earth.
- sandworm101 2y agoBut both are untouchable.
- robwwilliams 2y agoYou can image and get in vivo estimates of brain volume. Here is a paper that does so: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583264/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583264/
- nathan_compton 2y agoI would hope that the epistemological status of medical discoveries exceeds somewhat that of knowledge of black holes.