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Re:Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars? by jboggan on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:28PM (#18244717)
It's interesting, original, and most importantly falsifiable. There will be real differences between the jets predicted by his theory and the commonly accepted model, I'm excited to see it tested.

There's a moment at which every scientific theory is only thought credulous by a single person.

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Re:Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars? by everdev on Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:22AM (#18246107)
> There's a moment at which every scientific theory is only thought credulous by a single person.

Agreed, but the same is also true of any conspiracy theory or half-baked idea. The theory should be evaluated on it's merits, not the number of supporters. And theories that can be tested are always better than ones that can't IMO.

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Re:Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars? by mrpgraae on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:00AM (#18246724)
The thing about conspiracy theories is that they are usually not falsifiable, at least not to their proponents.

As jboggan mentions, this theory is both falsifiable and testable in practice.

I think it's important that there are always a few people in science who go against the mainstream, as long as they do actual science, so falsifiable and testable theories.

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