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by stronglikedan 217 days ago
> If our understanding of these supernovae is wrong, as this paper claims, that would be a massive scientific breakthrough.

Indeed. It's so hard to definitively prove things that are, that the most significant breakthroughs prove things that aren't (so to speak), imho.

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> It's so hard to definitively prove things that are, that the most significant breakthroughs prove things that aren't (so to speak), imho

Significant breakthroughs do both. Prove things aren’t as we thought. And are as the new model suggests.