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Gravity can exist without mass, dark matter could be myth: Study
(interestingengineering.com)
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Does a study have to be empirical? I'm not aware of any rule.
When you see study, it's more statistical analysis of things.
So things like clinical studies doing studies on population of people.
Where this is more publication of a mathematical idea.
Source: have a degree in physics and it's one of those unwritten rules. Kinda like how English sentences have an order. The soft brown big bunny sounds wired.
I've also got a degree in physics and I think it's a valid if kinda wonky use of the word study. They studied whether or not GR allowed this specific thing and that's enough to say it's physically possible.
I've definitely heard it used this way before, even if it is less common. I wouldn't say it's an unwritten rule so much as just the implication that there's some direct observation going on.
Agreed that it's valid if wonky.
It's why I compared it to the sentence structure. It just rings a little weird in my ear and that's why.
TIL.