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by dilap 1211 days ago
the fact that the calculations always seemed to be chasing the experimental result seemed the most damning thing to me

i remember from physics undergrad a million years ago that great value was put on predicting new things -- you can always find a way to fit existing numbers!

an epicycles vs ellipses kind of thing

(but of course w/o actually being expert in the topic, it's hard to really know what to think)