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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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What would I do with a GPL paper? Probably nothing, maybe share it with some friends without worrying about the RIAA breathing down my neck. I was noting that all walks of life have GPL connections. Pity you had to go make a snide remark about it.
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Um.. define "the best"?
The "Truth"?
The "most elegent"?
The "one that my mind can most willingly accept"?
Nature's way.
The "one that majority of scientists can most willingly accept"?
This one I don't know.
They've always behaved like this. It's human nature to believe that our understanding is the correct one. We believe this so strongly that any opposing opinions are met with great suspicion, even hostility.
Scientists declare themselves openminded, but then they define "openminded" as accepting of anything that doesn't threaten their existing view and opinions about what they believe. If you want to see a viscious attack on anothers reputation, just look at the scientific world, they put theologins and politicians to shame by comparison. No, if you are a scientist you had better have pretty thick skin if you want to challenge the status quo. There is no room in scientific circle for multiple leading theories, there is "one true religion" and the rest are all crackpot theories.
A perfect case in point is the current debate over teaching evolution in public schools. You'd think that it was a religious debate on both sides, the way they act. Since they currently have the upper hand, they are determined not to give any ground, the mere mention that evolution has some competing theories is completely unacceptable, it must be taught as absolute fact with no questioning allowed. We simply can't allow young impressionable minds access to any facts that might contradict evolution, they might start questioning the "one true religion", and the scientific community can't bear the thought of that.
Regardless of your beliefs regarding evolution, disallowing any mention of other ideas is not education, it's indoctrination. If scientists that believe in evolution wanted to do what's right, they'd insist on a larger discussion about what various cultures historically believed about their origins and how our understanding has evolved and the questions that still exist. It could be done in a way that is not endorsing any particular "religion" and would certainly lead to some interesting class discussions.