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Fantastic News
There is nothing, that I could find, in the sources Robert L.
Oldershaw cites which contains an explicit derivation of a planetary mass peak from DSR. In particular, there is no cite on the "Predictions of Discrete Scale Relativity" webpage, merely a bald claim ("Discrete Scale Relativity predicts that the exoplanet mass function will have a primary peak at 8 x 10^-5 solar masses, or about the mass of Neptune.") More generally, there is nothing, that I could find, which explains why there should be mass distribution at all, much less a particular one ... if I have understood what's in the various sources (and some of it is really hard to comprehend, so I may not have), all planets should have a discrete mass; the distribution function should be something like a delta function. Far from "Fantastic News", I think the DSR claim being made is ~just numeracy and irreproducible to boot; so whatever it is, I don't think it could be called science. I have been unable to get a copy of Mayor&Queloz (2012), so I cannot comment on it; if anyone has a copy, would you be able to send me a (soft/electronic) copy please? |
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