What can be more pleasing for us as committed data analysts than reading in a short letter by a hard-core theorist a following passage:
"It is no longer enough to try and roughly understand cosmological observations: time has come to use these data in a new way instead of merely gather them."
Woow it is almost like ADAMIS's manifesto !
The letter's aim is to review some selected fundamental physics insights, which can be derived from cosmological and astrophysical observations. The sentence above is therefore presumably referring more to a scientific exploitation of those data sets, than to data analysis per se. However, that does not seem to undermine my initial satisfaction as the latter can not be achieved without being preceded by a meaningful, advanced data analysis. And this kind of analysis, as opposed to a tradidtional "number crunching", is exactly what the ADAMIS team aims at and strives for in a number of astrophysical and cosmological contexts.
At the end the paper's actual scope turns out to be quite a bit narrower than what is heralded in the introduction as its focus is fixed almost solely on the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy data and the constraints they can provide on the physics of the early Universe. Even this fact, however, will be found by some of us at ADAMIS as satisfying, confirming our research choices. The above limitation, as well as somewhat idiosyncratic references, are certainly only due to the page limit the author no doubt had to abide by ;-). Leaving these aside, this short letter looks like an adequate coffee time entertainment with, as mentioned above, a special bonus for data analysts.
So data analysts rejoice !
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