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What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist?
sonar67 writes "According to The Economist: 'It was beautiful, complex and wrong. In 150AD, Ptolemy of Alexandria published his theory of epicycles--the idea that the moon, the sun and the planets moved in circles which were moving in circles which were moving in circles around the Earth. This theory explained the motion of celestial objects to an astonishing degree of precision. It was, however, what computer programmers call a kludge: a dirty, inelegant solution. Some 1,500 years later, Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer, replaced the whole complex edifice with three simple laws. Some people think modern astronomy is based on a kludge similar to Ptolemy's. At the moment, the received wisdom is that the obvious stuff in the universe--stars, planets, gas clouds and so on--is actually only 4% of its total content. About another quarter is so-called cold, dark matter, which is made of different particles from the familiar sort of matter, and can interact with the latter only via gravity. The remaining 70% is even stranger. It is known as dark energy, and acts to push the universe apart. However, the existence of cold, dark matter and dark energy has to be inferred from their effects on the visible, familiar stuff. If something else is actually causing those effects, the whole theoretical edifice would come crashing down.'"
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Just like the Theory of Evolution.
If the majority of /. readers think "Light Saber" is the best hand to hand weapon then there's no doubt. Fuck you fucking stupid nerds!
What a bunch of losers!
Spending their best years with the computer while other dudes like me drive home with the prom queen and fuck her brains out!!!
You're mOM is a verbatime copy of my ass!
and i DoN'T complainen!
Strange Quark Matter???
MUhahahhahahahahHAHAHA!!!
Hmmmm....what can be inferred here?
"You're mOM is a verbatime copy of my ass!"
1) By definition his mother would have a pussy.
2) By definition his mother can reproduce.
3) His mother is an exact copy of your ass.
Therefore: You have a pussy ass that interacts with semen.
Since the 1980s Saddam Hussein has killed about two million people. That's about 10 times more than the number of people killed by Slobodan Milosevic. Clinton used the U.S. Military against Milosevic in the 1990s citing human rights concerns. The lesson we're learning here is that it's OK for a Democratic president to attack a bloody dictator who has killed 200,000 people, but who presents no threat whatsoever to the rest of the world on purely human rights concerns; but it is definitely not OK for a Republican president to use troops to unseat a dictator who has killed two million people, and who may have the weapons needed to kill millions more. Yeah .. I think I get it now. Makes perfect sense to me.
...mostly around Uranus. And remember... Uranus is a gas giant.
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I think the theory that "dark" matter is holding the universe together (and apart) is a lot like SCO's claims: lots of puffed up hyperbole that sounds good until examined closely.
Perhaps then it is this alleged dark energy that Darl and co. are trying to use to thwart Linux?
-- haaz.
..the neverending stream of /. scientists (or as I prefer to call them, slashheads).. to think the world is full of such extremely knowledgable people just makes me feel safe at night.