like we 'know' how stars are formed, lol
some good guesses perhaps based off microscopic scraps of data. Astronomy is amazing and admirable but I think a strong dose of humity is desperately needed. IMHO most folk in this field come off way too confident/arrogant in their models when we've barely scratched the surface.
Hmm... Star formation is pretty well understood. You can even calculate
models and predict star formation quite accurately.
Input certain atoms, molecules, gasses, densities, pressures, and temperatures and mathematical
models will spit out quite precise star formation
Its also far from microscopic data. Its gigs upon gigs upon gigs of data
The thing about the scientific community that I don't think people outside
academic circles understand is that the way you become successful is proving
all your fellow scientists wrong.
Its a constant cycle of 50 scientists checking 1 scientists work with the soul mission
of proving his research wrong so when there is a consensus agreement the
data set has to be quite large and over whelming
Star and Planet Formation
The Formation of Clusters of Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Some of our best scientific minds
View: https://youtu.be/daEH2qkChFI?t=332
Note how they all argue with each other. Practically none are in agreement and all
are trying their best to prove the others work wrong. The idea that these guys
are all gonna agree to try to fool the world just sounds crazy
They wont even agree on the definition of infinity so when a data set becomes
so overwhelming that they all are forced to agree on something its pretty darn solid