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South Pole Telescope Data Places Better Limit on Neutrino Mass

Posted by Unknown on from the billions-of-years-in-the-making dept.

An anonymous reader writes an excerpt from a press release by the University of Chicago: "Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy — the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe." The research resulted in three papers involving new constraints on the mass of neutrinos, a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the CMB, and a catalog of newly discovered galaxy clusters. The data lends a bit more support to the cosmological constant theory of dark energy.

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  1. Source of dark energy by bonch · · Score: 0, Funny

    Deeper analysis revealed the dark energy source is a large, repellent mass located in our solar system.

    1. Re:Source of dark energy by game+kid · · Score: 1, Funny

      It's been developing for quite some time, apparently.

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  2. There's brazillions of them by wcrowe · · Score: 3, Funny

    WTF is a "neutronio"?

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    1. Re:There's brazillions of them by Unknown+Lamer · · Score: 3, Funny

      I find spelling unpossile diffikult sometimes.

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    2. Re:There's brazillions of them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's a press release from the University of Chicago. You should feel lucky it's not measured in rods or links.

  3. Neutronio by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's-a me, Neutronio!

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  4. Re:faggots bitching about the summary. by Beelzebud · · Score: 3, Funny

    The rest of them still haven't figured out how to frame this in to an anti-tax rant.

  5. South Pole. It figures by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's nothing better to do there.

    If the telescope was in Hawaii, they'd just put down any old number and hit the beach early. "Surf's up, dude!"

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