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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. off topic: vista 5231 leaked by uxe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. I'm going back to jesus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know what , I'm sure mad about this. I left my church because science said it had proven that Steven Hawking could talk.

  3. Re:Neat by Otter · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Sorry, I also hate when people feel the need to post to correct trivial typos but I somehow badly mangled that between Preview and Submit:

    I'm surprised it took so long for anyone to do this. Is the math here significantly more difficult than it looks? Considering relativity seems like an obvious approach, especially if the alternative to postulate entirely new classes of matter.

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  4. Re:So does that mean... by Sivar · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Don't you mean that "Dark Matter Doesn't"?

    Speak like Yoda he does?
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  5. Re:So does that mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do you not care about black people?

  6. But... by Jaiwithani · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    has Netcraft confirmed this?

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  7. 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-

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

    My skateboard and I disagree,

    you insensitive clod!