FARK.com: (12667100) Sorry Einstein, God does appear to play dice with the universe. He uses 4-sided dice, and they're loaded

		Sorry Einstein, God does appear to play dice with the universe. He uses 4-sided dice, and they're loaded (quantamagazine.org)		7
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1164 clicks; posted to STEM » on 07 Dec 2022 at 2:05 PM (16 weeks ago) | Favorite | share:

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mcreadyblue

2022-12-07 3:21:14 PM

5 votes:

FYI - Chien-Shiung Wu whose experiments all started this was denied a Nobel prize, while her male colleagues got one.

Concrete Donkey

2022-12-07 2:30:01 PM

4 votes:

Riiiiiiiight. This totally is NOT a case of humans seeing shapes where none exist. Nope. Not at all.

And there is a really, REALLY good reason why they just happened to connect in such a way which will be explained right after this SMOKEBOMB

Quantumbunny

2022-12-07 2:44:20 PM

3 votes:

I'm kind of amazed we think we have enough data on A MILLION galaxies to play connect the dots with them in groups of 4 and proclaim anything.

Seems like there's a lot of ways to bunch things up, and then having confidence that this way is meaningful... And the data behind that... is incredible.

Explodo

2022-12-07 2:55:22 PM

2 votes:

Maybe our observable universe just orbits in a larger structure and the direction of travel relative to that larger structure leads to the apparent asymmetry.

Or maybe they didn't do it right.

As a math/CS guy, if you need me to do analysis on a million points that contain distances, I could come up with all sorts of answers in short order. Throw statistics at it, and you can get answers, but maybe not right ones.

no1curr