James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe - eviltoast
  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    yeah, but it’s always a shitshow when someone brings alternate theories to the big bang. it’s almost like back in those days when they burned people for suggesting the earth may be slightly less flat than expected.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      That’s because alternative models like MOND or string theory end up breaking more things than they solve. Fixing the leak in your roof is great, but doing so by breaking the living room wall isn’t really an acceptable solution.

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        8 months ago

        In optimization problems, you can get stuck at a local maxima. It looks like any direction you go makes things worse. But the only way out of that is to try something that does make things worse and try refining from there to see if you can get to something better. Maybe that living room wall does need to come down in the process.

        • Malfeasant@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          It works perfectly as long as you assume there are a bunch of extra spatial dimensions that can’t be seen…