I recently finished "The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook"[0], which can best be described as "Here's all the data, please, tell me how your crazy theory fits ALL of it, because it's really hard to do that". I really illuminates the difficulty in building any theory that fits all the data, and the incredible beauty that our current best theory of the universe truly is.
Gravitational wave events like these are just more data, making the challenge that much more difficult. And yet, the model still fits pretty well, barring a few pieces. But we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, because it's still a really good model.
And the best part about that is that we can use the model we have to make predictions, and most of the time they're pretty good. Predictions about things we can never see or experience or know. We can see into the past and future.
Gravitational wave events like these are just more data, making the challenge that much more difficult. And yet, the model still fits pretty well, barring a few pieces. But we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, because it's still a really good model.
And the best part about that is that we can use the model we have to make predictions, and most of the time they're pretty good. Predictions about things we can never see or experience or know. We can see into the past and future.
[0]https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Revolutionarys-Handbook-Beat-B...