On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 11:59:13 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:


Indeed. AFAIK, the IMF is not derivable from first principles; it has
to be put in "by hand". And this is something pretty basic.

Quite true! And you can include most of the early observable universe
modeling, as well as ab initio galaxy formation, in the "put in by
hand" category.

RLO
Fractal Cosmology