Future detections — «or non-detections» — of circumbinary around short - period binary stars, the authors write, will «will provide the best indirect
observational test of the STEEP process.
Some advocates of the theory state that it is so flexible that it is immune to experimental /
observational tests for two reasons:
«Future detections of circumbinary around short - period binary stars will provide the best
indirect observational test of the STEEP process.»
Their view echoes that of many cosmologists, who are beginning to think that the Universe is older than
standard observational tests suggest.
The researchers are using data from the three detections to subject Einstein's theory of general relativity to increasingly
stringent observational tests.
With Paul Steinhardt, he developed an alternative, cyclic model for cosmology, whose predictions are so far in agreement with
all observational tests.
S. Gratton, T. Hertog, N. Turok,
An Observational Test of Quantum Cosmology, Physical Review D62, 2000, 063501, astro - ph / 9907212
I would call the mechanic on Monday and do
some observational testing over the weekend.
To better assess confidence in the different model estimates of climate sensitivity, two kinds of
observational tests are available: tests related to the global climate response associated with specified external forcings (discussed in Chapters 6, 9 and 10; Box 10.2) and tests focused on the simulation of key feedback processes.