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Conflicting observations of the gravitational-like interactions which have engendered talk about the fifth force might have been reconciled if it were not for another set of data.
Successful simulations do not validate the theories from which they spring, but it is remarkable that a numerical simulation of galaxy formation seems to reproduce the observed fractal pattern on the sky.