we 'pre-judge' ;-) just to begin..

That is, "random fact gathering" obviously produces - huge piles of unsorted random factoids. I believe we call that, 'noise'? (or infotainment, currently)

So one begins from an extrapolation of what we suppose 'is known to date'. Usually the most interesting next question is about the what-if (previous ideas are flawed). Not much interest in measuring a new value for g in Pasadena, this year.

Induction/deduction, integration/differentiation and sideways with the true magicians. We still need a framework for hanging our work in progress. Same with the cop, only.. you can verify IF 'small-g has changed*'.

With humans, you never really Know.. in the end. Just recall Rashomon for every crime scene.

Is the above cop story just - a fable for all our times?


A.

* 'Course too - big-G may.. be changing. Why that would affect entire view of the 'expansion' of the universe! Could we determine that - from within the universe box?