Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity

dr. loser writes "The CERN newsletter reports that a new paper by scientists at the University of Victoria has demonstrated that one of the prime observational justifications for the existence of dark matter can be explained without any dark matter at all, by a proper use of general relativity! What does this imply for cosmology and particle physics, both of which have been worrying about other aspects of dark matter?"

Comments

Re:Except that the "source" is the document source

[poopdeville]

You know, I'm not really sure. TeX (and LaTeX) are general purpose programming languages, so a .tex file could be viewed as a program -- much like Perl and the like. But then again, TeX is usually used to capture a document's format specifications. It would be counter-intuitive (and wrong) to apply the GPL to HTML, so by analogy, it should be wrong to apply it to TeX files.

All of this is academic since the author only gives limited distribution rights to arXiv.org and reserves the rest. I'd be really pissed if someone "modified" my source and submitted it to Nature (or Proc. AMS. in my case)

Re:Well it clearly matters to some people...

[RobinTucker]

The point does not concern having an alternative to back up the scepticism with, the point is that current dogmas literally eat almost all available funding, leaving little behind with which to develop and test any other hypothesis.