I Cosmic Test Reveals Odd Findings for Einstein's Relativity

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What the popular press writes and a scientific paper says may be somewhat different.
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The paper is more than a year old and has 15 citations, not zero, and not a zillion. That tells you that it is more or less typical among such papers.
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
The paper is more than a year old and has 15 citations

I first read "the paper is more than 15 years old".
Need more coffee...
 
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malawi_glenn said:
I first read "the paper is more than 15 years old".
In some frame, it is.
 
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I think the gist of it is, if you assume a certain class of theories (which include "vanilla" GR) contains the correct theory of gravity, and assume some prior on those theories, and then do a Bayesian estimate of the best fit parameters to predict our current measures of some key cosmological numbers, then GR is not the favoured model. But it's not a resoundingly significant (in the statistical sense) result, and I've no idea how plausible cosmologists in general find their assumptions.
 
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