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So, nothing new? The cosmic ray hypothesis has been dominant for a few years now. This magazine…

• JadeNB 4mo ago
  > So, nothing new? > The cosmic ray hypothesis has been dominant for a few years now. > This magazine… I think saying "This magazine…" as if the flaws of Quanta are well understood and agreed may need additional elaboration. If you mean that experts have known this—well, the role of Quanta is to disseminate and explain expert research to scientifically literate non-experts; it is not meant to be distributing the latest research itself.
  • paxcoder 4mo ago
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  • fguerraz 4mo ago
    Well, let's say I just don't understand the popularity of this magazine on HN.
    • kami23 4mo ago
      Why not explain why you think that? We can't all be perpetually online to have an opinion about a one website that shows up occasionally on this site.
      • avazhi 4mo ago
        Not the guy you’re responding to but Quanta articles are invariably horribly written, horribly explained, and constantly do this thing whether they simultaneously are pretentious and over complicate things while also belabouring simple, elementary concepts. Essentially it’s the worst of every world.
  • avazhi 4mo ago
    > the role of Quanta is to disseminate and explain expert research to scientifically literate non-experts; it is not meant to be distributing the latest research itself Quanta articles are invariably horribly written, horribly explained, and constantly do this thing whether they simultaneously are pretentious and over complicate things while also belabouring simple, elementary concepts. Essentially it’s the worst of every world. And that’s to say nothing about how they click bait everything.