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Re:A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the... by dexwiz on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:21PM (#36303881)
Elegance is matter of perspective. Epicycles are a very elegant way to explain planetary orbits from a geocentric view point, but they are very wrong.
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Re:A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the... by JKCalhoun on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:47PM (#36304511)
I would agree epicycles are elegant — if they worked. :-)
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Re:A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the... by chopin on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:49AM (#36306470)
They work. It's just an approximation series.
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Re:A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:04PM (#36314140)
There goes the elegance though.
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Re:A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the... by LudwigNagasena on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:34AM (#36310004)
Epicycles can’t be wrong per se, they can approximate any continuous movement. That is what makes it "curve fitting" and "inelegant".
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