by Dr. Tahir Yaqoob
February 6, 2012
Quite often, a scientific conclusion has to be assigned a probability of being true, and this is often expressed in jargon as a certain number of “sigma.” We will need to refer to this terminology often, so the purpose of this article is to explain what the jargon means. First of all, there is an […]
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by Dr. Tahir Yaqoob
January 31, 2012
The current theory of planet formation, known as the “core accretion theory” is increasingly running into direct conflicts with observations. This was only a question of time because it is based on a physical impossibility: nobody has figured out a way to grow planetesimals from tiny dust grains in the nascent disk because gravity does […]
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