ImNrNanoGiga

ImNrNanoGiga t1_ir4rea8 wrote

Reply to How can we be sure that Neanderthal skeletons are Neanderthal skeletons and not human skeletons decomposing? by cent178

Bones don't deform that drastically while decomposing and they're relatively easy to tell apart when intact (there's pictures of comparisons available). Trained people can work wonders with even the smallest fragments.

But, as always in science, it is best if multiple avenues of inquiry point to the same direction. You can carbon date (older than 1 million years? no modern human) and also look at the situation where you find it (cultural techniques known not to be practiced by Neanderthals for example).

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ImNrNanoGiga t1_iqxu64f wrote

Reply to comment by QuantumR4ge in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

Lynch, M. H.; Cohen, E.; Hadad, Y.; Kaminer, I. (2021). "Experimental Observation of Acceleration-Induced Thermality" seems to be a peer-reviewed article by CERN scientists, claiming to have detected it.

Not a physicist though, so I can't really say if that means anything.

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