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Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Dr. Victoria Grinberg
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp last week

It's a problem that we only have one Universe. It's very hard to do statistics with N=1.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology

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Sylvia Wenmackers 馃馃崁
Sylvia Wenmackers 馃馃崁
@SylviaFysica@scholar.social  路  activity timestamp last week

@vicgrinberg Also experiments... What if we mess this one up?

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Javier Manuel Mart铆n Alonso
Javier Manuel Mart铆n Alonso
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@SylviaFysica
Exactly. And maybe the problem isn't just N=1, but our obsession with treating the Standard Model as sacred. Just look at the聽Hubble Tension: we keep trying to patch the data when maybe it鈥檚 the model itself that is broken.

We often forget that even Einstein was wrong about 'spooky action at a distance.' It took Bell鈥攖hinking outside the mainstream鈥攖o prove that what was once dismissed as a joke was actually reality. We need less reverence for 'senior' status and more courage.

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Dr. Victoria Grinberg
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp last week

@SylviaFysica especially since we are on the way to ... 馃槩

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