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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?"

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  1. Hawking by everphilski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hell, even Hawking has never shaken up the ideas of science and physics to anything near the degree Einstein has.

    No, maybe not, but the real Stephen Hawking in a f*cking Quake Master

    -everphilski-

  2. "After all, gravity is a relatively weak force." by SlashDread · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My skateboard and I disagree,

    you insensitive clod!