Shrewd, very shrewd. I believe Microsoft is trying to capitalize on the growing distrust of Google and what Google does with the information it gathers about people.
If it is indeed the case that all of the estimates of dark matter up until now were based on incorrectly calculated galactic rotational rates, then this was a monumental screwup. So noone was using general relativity for these calculations, and were relying on Newtonian physics? I am speechless.
Just a quick Google search turns up about 10 experimental collaborations comprising about 200 physicists looking for dark matter, a topic which is funded so highly **because** of the galactic observations and not because of "gee whiz it would be neat to find dark matter". Assuming a cool $15M per experiment, that's $150,000,000.00 spent worldwide. And you'd a thunk some funding agency somewhere would have paid 0.01% of that for a study of galactic rotations in the full GR before plunking that down.
Who the hell is Armstrong Williams? I had never heard of him before all this.
Honestly it doesn't surprise me though. Of course, the Bush administration wouldn't have to pay for good press if they ever got a fair shake from the likes of CBS.
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Shrewd, very shrewd. I believe Microsoft is trying to capitalize on the growing distrust of Google and what Google does with the information it gathers about people.
If it is indeed the case that all of the estimates of dark matter up until now were based on incorrectly calculated galactic rotational rates, then this was a monumental screwup. So noone was using general relativity for these calculations, and were relying on Newtonian physics? I am speechless. Just a quick Google search turns up about 10 experimental collaborations comprising about 200 physicists looking for dark matter, a topic which is funded so highly **because** of the galactic observations and not because of "gee whiz it would be neat to find dark matter". Assuming a cool $15M per experiment, that's $150,000,000.00 spent worldwide. And you'd a thunk some funding agency somewhere would have paid 0.01% of that for a study of galactic rotations in the full GR before plunking that down.
Who the hell is Armstrong Williams? I had never heard of him before all this. Honestly it doesn't surprise me though. Of course, the Bush administration wouldn't have to pay for good press if they ever got a fair shake from the likes of CBS.