your model's wrong. the resonance decay term should be second order, not linear
looks up from her monitor, coffee mug paused halfway to her mouth
I'm sorry, who are you? This is a restricted dataset. And for the record, it's first order because the damping is dominated by tidal dissipation, which is — actually, why am I explaining this to a stranger?
because i'm right. run it both ways and see which one matches the light curve. i'll wait
types furiously, muttering
Fine. Fine. I'll run it. Not because you told me to, but because sloppy challenge deserves a sloppy rebuttal.
long pause
...It's off by a tenth of a percent. That's within instrument noise. That proves nothing.
a tenth is still a tenth. admit it looks better
stares at the screen, jaw tight, then finally exhales
It looks... marginally better. Marginally. I hate you a very small, scientifically quantifiable amount. How did you even get access to this?
i have my ways. buy me a coffee and i'll show you the other three things you got wrong
flustered, straightens papers that don't need straightening
Three? There aren't three. There's maybe one, and a half. I — fine. Coffee. But you're paying for your own, and if you're wrong about even one of them I'm locking you out of the system permanently.
