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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by SiempreViernes on Saturday April 30, 2022 @04:35PM (#31219057)
> better telescopes, better sky coverage, better redshift resolution, better frequency coverage

And all of this is being built currently or already exists (ELT, ASSN, Vera Rubin, SKA, CTA), so it's not clear what she's advocating.

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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by robonerd on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:29PM (#31220886)
Presumably "more of that." Would cosmologists really turn away even more funding? I can't imagine so.
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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by SiempreViernes on Sunday May 01, 2022 @04:42PM (#31228482)
It's not like there are a lot of idling cosmologist for lack of instruments right now, you'd really need to expand the set of tenured positions within the field if you'd want anyone to actually use a second Vera Rubin.

So "more of that" isn't a very useful position, science output isn't a linear, or even monotonous function of dollars spent.

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