And I'm **NOT** saying that (1981-era) particle physicists were Better at Science than the astrophysicists, or that Cosmology is Broken. It's just a reflection of the quality of the data available and the experiments/analyses one can do
(never mind that inverse square fields are a bit of a mathematical sweet spot: Stokes Theorem/Gauss's Law makes it possible to construct experiments to find the most ridiculously small deviations from 2, so this particular thing was kind of an unfair comparison anyway).
4/n
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