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Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity

Posted by Hemos on from the all-einstein-quotes-you-know-are-wrong dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Except that the "source" is the document source by poopdeville · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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)

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  2. Rationality .vs. Creationism by ElitistWhiner · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Good Day for the Scientists reaffirming belief in Mind over Matter (i.e. Dark). We live in a rational Universe, today, complete with rules and predictable behaviors.

    Bad Day for the Creationists sullying belief in Matter over Mind (i.e. Mythology). Their lives are winnowed by one fewer dark unknowns to support their irrational behaviors and flaunting the rules of the known World.

    Good on ya, Boys! That's what Albert would think, too;-)

  3. Intelligent Deisgn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Which is why we need to teach intelligent design in school!

  4. At last! by DesScorp · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dark Matter has always been a crock. It was the dot.bomb of astrophysics, all hype.

    Glad to see that it's being recognized that science has a good bit of quackery out there. As I've said before, the scientific method may be perfect, but the humans invoking it are not.

    Next fad to expose: stem cell research. It has some promise, but levelheaded scientists are beginning to admit it's overhyped. Sanjay fucking Gupta was on CNN yesterday telling you that stem cells would allow you to grow replacement body parts in a petri dish, then just tack them on....fucktards....

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  5. Re:Well it clearly matters to some people... by RobinTucker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.