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Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe
realwx writes "Astronomers are surprised by a recent discovery of a space hole that is nearly a billion light years across. "Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota. Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams also had not anticipated this finding. "What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe," said Williams, also of the University of Minnesota.""
Good news, Mr. President, they found your brain!
Yeah, and perhaps dark matter is the phlogistan of the 21st century, but you'd make a better point if you didn't post anonymously, account or no.
I've read plenty of material on the electric universe and it's no weirder than dark matter and dark energy. I would guess that we're due for a correction in astrophysics sometime. Whether the electric universe is it, I don't know, but the material that I've read has a certain feel to it that makes my skin crawl, similar to claims by Microsoft that Microsoft Windows is more secure than modern Unix.
I became a computer programmer because I do have the ability to look over a body of code and pick out bugs on inspection, so I do tend to trust my intuition. (And before anyone flames me about XEmacs 20.0, my Dick Cheney told me specifically to not bother about testing the code that failed miserably personally because it had already been tested by others -- and I knew that was a mistake at the time, but went ahead anyway. Live and learn, and be assertive when you really are right.)