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Does anyone know of any interesting models of the SAME phenomena using Einstein’s field equations that are (apparently) incompatible with one another?

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I’m not aware of any application of the field equations that are inconsistent with one another above the plank scale.. but I’m not entirely sure that’s what you meant

Yeah, I should be more clear. The sort of inconsistency I’m in would only arise after we make certain modeling assumptions about the system were interested in studying, e.g., that the binary black hole mass ratio can only be such and such.

interested in*

So, you’d have two models of the BBH system that perhaps output equivalent results, but that vary with respect to what our model says the system is like (or how we represent it).