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Re:If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distr... by kortex on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:19AM (#23141761)
What are the "two plots of completely different things?" You have two plots of intensity vs wavelength, where one is spectral intensity, and the other is a histogram binning.

On its face, there's zero reason why these plots line up as well as they do, this goes beyond conincidence.

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Re:If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distr... by posix_me_less on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:58AM (#23142835)
"two plots of completely different things" is not meant as criticism, just a description of what the paper is suggesting. It's ok to seek and investigate similarities between completely different things.

They are plots against wavelength axis, yes, but the "things" plotted on y-axis are completely different concepts.

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