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Correct me if I am missing something, but it seems like the speculative bit was Milgrom noticing that coincidence in 1983, and now they are trying to explore the consequences of assuming that it's not just a coincidence... hopefully with testable predictions coming out of this ?

How else should they go about it ?

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I forget who said it but asking "hm, what's causing this anomaly in my experimental results" is how science progresses.

ISTR someone saying that the most common words spoken prior to a breakthrough aren't "Eureka!" or "Aha!" but instead "That's strange..."

Often atrributed to Asimov, but it doesn't seem to have been him: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/?amp=1

Coincidentally (or not) those also seem to be the words spoken during computer programming right before you figure out something you never understood before.

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