On: The Impossible Star

[pavel_lishin]

I love their sense of humor:

> These quadruple models yield reasonably good fits to the data, and are physically possible, which is an improvement over the triple model!

[quarterto → pavel_lishin]

> The right panel shows the same basic model, but ignores Kepler’s laws. This produces a much better fit, but has the unfortunate drawback of breaking the laws of physics.

Brilliant. Just noticed the author of the paper is from my alma mater, too.