The Sky Desk has logged every trail here twice a day since 2015: 44,102 observations. We paid a physicist who had never heard of us to find what predicts persistence. Humidity explains 71 per cent. Day of the week, 0.2.
The ionospheric research facility runs a public tour twice a year, publishes its transmission schedule, and takes experiment proposals from anybody. Our correspondent submitted one. It was rejected, on the record, with reasons — and an invitation to resubmit.
The argument says a simulation would skimp on detail nobody observes. We asked four physicists where the universe is most expensive to compute. Three named the same thing, and it is the one thing that can never be seen.
