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Originally Posted by VanderL
When, for example, I read of the enormous density of the matter in neutron stars, I will not believe this is really possible unless reproduced and shown to work as advertised. Until then I'm a skeptic, wary of every development that builds on such (to me) unproven quantities (and there are lots of them in astronomy).
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Why are you here?
No, really. If you won't believe anything until it's reproduced, then you should not study astronomy.
It's as if you said, "When I read about the continent called Australia, I will not believe it unless someone brings it here, into this room." That's not possible, and neither is the "reproduction" of almost all of astronomy.
I'm not trying to be mean, but shouldn't you be spending your time doing something else? Based on your own words, you are doomed to disbelieve a very large fraction of what you read here. Why do you read it? Why do you make US read your postings?