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		pavel_lishin on Sept 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Impossible Star I love their sense of humor: > These quadruple models yield reasonably good fits to the data, and are physically possible, which is an improvement over the triple model!

quarterto on Sept 13, 2014 [–]

> The right panel shows the same basic model, but ignores Kepler’s laws. This produces a much better fit, but has the unfortunate drawback of breaking the laws of physics.

Brilliant. Just noticed the author of the paper is from my alma mater, too.

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