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The error bars on those distances have been shrinking for decades. Slow steady progress.
by db48x 1y ago
The error bars on those distances have been shrinking for decades. Slow steady progress.
- bonzini 1y ago... And for completeness, the shrinking actually made the tension worse.
- jug 1y agoUntil now with a far better telescope able to significantly improve the sample size, that is. Ugh, this is so frustrating. We know our current theories cannot be complete but the LHC has mostly just confirmed assumptions, and now this. Everything seems to well contained.
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- dvh 1y agoWhich is exactly how systematic error would manifest
- db48x 1y agoIt would have to be a pretty robust error to survive 30 years of continuous study.
- hnaccount_rng 1y agoOr a common unchallenged assumption. Orthodox errors are always only obvious in hindsight