Einstein's Theory Improved?

skaet writes to tell us that A Chinese astronomer from the University of St Andrews claims to have fine-tuned Einstein's theory of gravity. Dr Hong Sheng Zhao has created a 'simple' theory which could "solve a dark mystery that has baffled astrophysicists for three-quarters of a century." This new law seeks to discover whether Einstein's theory was correct and if dark matter actually exists.

Comments

Very interesting...

[TheNoxx]

Even if that is the worst graphic accompanying a well-written, intelligent article I've seen in my lifetime.

Re:Very interesting...

[musakko]

Select "[Low Graphic Version]" at the top. Much better :)

Re:Very interesting...

[antifoidulus]

Could be worse, could have wrote a paper entitled: "Using clipping planes to increase the graphical performance of showing 3d goatse men in real time"

Law is for lawyers, not scientists

[kooky45]

Would people please stop using the word "Law" when referring to scientific theories. It confuses the creationists.

Re:Law is for lawyers, not scientists

[LordLucless]

Side-tracked into a religious flamewar withing 2 posts. That's got to be a first, even for slashdot.

Re:Law is for lawyers, not scientists

[mikael]

Cole's law - delicious!

Confusing creationists

[Jens Egon]

Name something that doesn't!

Re:Confusing creationists

[aug24]

God's Law? ;-)

Mind you, it confuses me... "Thou shalt not kill... Now go over that hill there and kill everyone you find"

J.

Re:Confusing creationists

[meringuoid]

Does that mean every non-creationist here thinks that killing an enemy soldier is murder?

Not necessarily, but God's orders to the Israelites when they invaded the Promised Land went far, far beyond the killing of enemy soldiers. God wanted everyone killed - although ISTR that on one occasion he relented a little and allowed the Israeli troops to take some of the young women of the cities they were destroying for themselves. For the Lord is a merciful god.

Re:Confusing creationists

[Skythe]

Mind you, it confuses me... "Thou shalt not kill... Now go over that hill there and kill everyone you find"

Hallowed are the Orii?

Re:Confusing creationists

[mOdQuArK!]

Are you saying humans didn't write the Bible?

I have been confidently informed by people with the utmost faith & authority that the Bible is Divinely-Inspired(tm), and nothing in it can be wrong. They get a little confused when I ask them whether it were possible that the translation was incorrect, though - apparently they hadn't thought that it was necessary to translate the Bible from its original English.

Is dark matter conveniently transparent?

[Savage-Rabbit]

My problem with dark matter is that it's almost as difficult to believe in as God. The only real proof we have is that the universe doesn't appear to move correctly without it..... or is dark matter conveniently transparent

I have to disagree with that, I have no problem believing in the existance of dark matter. In fact I don't have to 'believe' in the existence of dark matter at all, I found some between my toes this morning and it was most certainly not transparent.

Re:Dark matter eh.

[Jedi Alec]

but the universe is big and not so bright.

So we're all living inside a football player then? Damn, sure explains a lot...

Dark Matter / Energy takes the "About PPARC" page

[ds_job]

The link at the bottom of the page labelled "About PPARC" obviously goes too close to a singularity and ends up in a parallel universe with a quantum difference of this address is a 404 page. They've got me convinced.

Re:Article should present his theory

[Anonymous Coward]

well April 1st only happens once a year thats why we have to wait...!

seriously though, this is waaay over my head.

Re:Dark matter eh.

[Tatarize]

Well, clearly, spiral arms of galaxies do look very much like the noodles of the FSM. This is clearly what we would expect from an egocentric deity such as FSM.

I want his job!

[Ancient_Hacker]

There are two kinds of jobs in the world:

(1) Jobs where if you goof up, some money goes down the drain, or you're embarrassed or, somebody gets hurt or dies. You know, like being a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

(2) Jobs where it doesnt matter one whit if you're wrong. Jobs like theoretical physicist in a field where there isnt the slightest possibility of carrying out an experiment. Such as dabbling in the theory of gravity.

Like an idiot, I'm in category #1. What a dope.

Of course dark matter exists!

[Anonymous Coward]

Non-believers will be sacrificed to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Observe His noodly greatness!

Re:Dark matter eh.

[Hognoxious]

If I had gone to my supervisor with an argument like that when I was doing chemistry he would probably have laughed himself stupid right before he sacked me.

So would I, if I was paying you to do chemistry but were faffing around with astronomy/astrophysics.

Re:Dark matter eh.

[i_should_be_working]

You're right. I'm writing my thesis right now so I may be in a "sound like you know everything" state of mind.