Received Wisdom

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Received Wisdom

Helbig, Phillip

2022 • In The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy, 142 (1289), p. 142–156

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cosmology: history

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[en] Science is a self-correcting process. While a consensus implies a majority, what is consensus is not determined by majority vote per se , but rather by the majority being convinced (rightly or wrongly!) that something is correct. In some cases, that represents a reversal of an earlier situation. I briefly review several cases in cosmology (and astrophysics) in the last hundred years or so where the received wisdom at a particular time turned out to be wrong, leading to a new consensus. Whether that will happen for two relatively new topics remains to be seen.

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Space science, astronomy & astrophysics

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Helbig, Phillip ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Faculté des Sciences > Form. doct. sc. (sc. spatiales - paysage)

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English

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Received Wisdom

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01 August 2022

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The Observatory : a Review of Astronomy

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0029-7704

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Wantage, United Kingdom

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142

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1289

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142–156

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Peer reviewed

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