Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations

Re:Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up c... by nostrebored on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:28PM (#29019366)

Calculations involving dark matter might as well be an experiment in curve fitting.

We won’t find dark matter in your or my lifetime, because it doesn’t exist. It is a convenient, flexible, and inelegant fudge factor.

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Re:Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up c... by xadhominemx on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:45PM (#29042746)

No, not really. We can observe it indirectly and have mapped out its structures. And intuitively, why do you find it implausible there is a massive particle that only interacts via gravitational force?

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Re:Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up c... by TuLithu on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @08:54PM (#29021034)

A "kludge," if you will?

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