AMA | October 2024

13417.794 - 13440.009 Sean Carroll

But that doesn't mean it describes the world correctly. It would be too high a bar. to say that the referee needs to perceive the reality of the cosmos before they can accept a paper. So plenty of papers are accepted provisionally under the model that they're looking at. And also some issues are just controversial, right? Some issues, the field as a whole doesn't know the answer to them.