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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by mr_mitm on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:28AM (#34365634)
> It's an absolute retrofitting of numbers to make a model fit reality.

That's just called science. What else do you propose? Give up because you didn't get it right the first time?

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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by moloch-hai on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:58AM (#34366619)
It is one thing to identify a mechanism and show how in operation it must produce the numbers seen. It is entirely different to invent a name for a presumed mechanism, with no hint of how it happened to come to the numbers seen.
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