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• Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravitation, etc.

  
  Some of Patrice Ayme's Thoughts — Authority: 117
  MYSTERIES GALORE… Abstract: A few basic considerations on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravitation, and how science proceeds. For once, nearly no statement here is in any way controversial… (OK, except a few snide remarks on the motivations of some revered physicists, and some tenets of physics requiring ...
  15 hours ago

• Out of Touch Pie-in-the-Sky Nuns With No Understanding of Hard Practical Reality

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 597
  talk turkey with Goldman-Sachs and make the world a better place. I wonder how much sheer common sense good happens in the world each day because some unknown person said yes to the grace of God?
  21 hours ago

• Dark Matter and Us

  
  The Poignant Frog — Authority: 118
  Zyg & Mea- graphic novel pages by marguerita bornstein ,published in Poignant Frog previously A consensus has emerged that dark matter mostly consists of massive particles coughed out of the big bang. The reason for the appellation "dark" is because, unlike atomic particles, they have no electric ...
  1 day ago

• NY TIMES: Where to look for dark matter? Why in Minnesota, of course.

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 715
  NY TIMES: Where to look for dark matter? Why in Minnesota, of course.: (This is an article from Dec....
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• Dark Matter and God

  
  Spero Consulting — Authority: 116
  There is an excellent column in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal entitled, A Dark Matter Breakthrough? In it, the physicist Lawrence Krauss writes about dark matter, which may or may not exist. It does exist in many theories that seem to require it to eliminate otherwise incongruent observations, and ...
  2 days ago

• Waves of dark matter

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 141
  And who would be the one to decide its true location ? Alas, to celebrate would be premature: The reported results are intriguing, but less than convincing. Yet if the two pulses observed last week in Minnesota are followed by more signals as bigger detectors turn on in the coming year or two, it will provide ...
  2 days ago

• Oh ya, we got that dark matter real good now

  
  MinnesotaBrown — Authority: 127
  My apologies for failing to pass along this story . Scientists might be closer to understanding dark matter, the nature of the universe and the origins of the Big Bang thanks to results from experiments conducted at the bottom of one of the Iron Ranges oldest and deepest underground mines . A collaborative effort ...
  2 days ago

• About Last Night

  
  Avoiding the Drop — Authority: 138
  What you missed while scientists were finding dark matter in a Minnesota mine… Leo Messi won an award I’d already thought he’d won: the FIFA World Player of the Year. Spain and Real Madrid both have their sights on Aston Villa centerback Carlos Cuellar. Rafa Benitez will have to sell players ...
  3 days ago

• But won’t it still stick out?

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 140
  Dark matter is all around us, but possibly even more so if you live in the snowy, Norse-ish lands of Minnesota. Wait, what? Scientists are reporting that researchers involved in something called the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search may have found dark matter particles, substance so common that it makes up ...
  3 days ago

• The dark matter in UK politics

  
  Man in a Shed — Authority: 425
  Man in a Shed used to be a seasoned observer of company politics - since Im in a one man company these days it no longer really applies . I used to reckon that any major decision could be explained or at least understood in terms of the forces acting on management. If you had an action that seemed odd, it generally ...
  3 days ago

• Sounding off on Economic Constraints in Experimentation

  
  Dialogos of Eide — Authority: 117
  I mean most understand that the economic spending "is the choice" as to whether an area of research will be continued to be funded or not, according to the direction that research council choose. Limited resources according to the times? This is not a reflection of the absurdity of going in a certain direction, but ...
  4 days ago

• Weathering the Storm of Stupidity (GLOBAL WARMING SUCKERS CIRCLE THE WAGONS)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  “(…) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.” — P.B. Medawar So what’s next? A series of essays by Sarah Palin about ...
  4 days ago

• Doctors, Deep Fields and Dark Matter

  
  Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line — Authority: 406
  Luckily, not all the astrophysics news this week was so bad . First, and most important, two of our Imperial College Astrophysics postgraduate students, Stuart Sale and Paniez Paykari, passed their PhD viva exams, and so are on their ways to officially being Doctors of Philosophy. Congratulations to both, ...
  6 days ago

• Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter in Minnesota Mine

  
  Gearlog — Authority: 609
  Scientists believe they have found evidence of dark matter , the invisible substance believed to comprise three-quarters of the matter in the universe, in a defunct iron mine in northern Minnesota. The tentative detection of two dark-matter particles, known as weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) for their ...
  6 days ago

• "A Tantalizing Hint of Dark Matter?" No.

  
  Starts With A Bang — Authority: 525
  One of the reasons I write here on ScienceBlogs is because of our associations with the New York Times , a journalistic news source that Im proud of on most days. Today is not one of those days. It isnt just the Times, either, the BBC is busy botching this story , so is the Telegraph , the Daily Mail , and ...
  6 days ago

• Minnesota dark matter researchers say they may have struck gold

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 650
  Its big deal because it may provide a missing link in the effort to understand the big bang theory.
  6 days ago

• Its Not On The Sun, Its Not in a Bun [Science]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 858
  Scientists discover dark matter in dark mine shaft. Should have checked there earlier!
  6 days ago

• Dark Matter Week: Do you feel lucky today?

  
  we are all in the gutter — Authority: 408
  First things first, we owe you an apology here at we are all in the gutter. Well, Stuart and I do, for not having followed up with our posts Wednesday and Thursday. We promised to tell you a little bit more about dark matter before the announcement today and alas, we sold you short. We still intend to do so, but in ...
  6 days ago

• When two might mean nothing, or it might be the future of physics

  
  Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 406
  Yesterday saw the culmination of weeks of building buzz surrounding the announcement of results from one (of many!) searches for dark matter in the laboratory.  The result: two "events" that look like dark matter, but theres a 23% chance that these are just background events.  In science, 23% chance of being wrong ...
  6 days ago

• Physicists Find Hints of Dark Matter But No Clear Discovery

  
  80beats — Authority: 630
  If you were following Cosmic Variance yesterday, you saw its live blogging of one of the most anticipated recent announcements in physics: the team from Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) telling the world whether a Minnesota detector spotted evidence of dark matter. The answer? Maybe (pdf). CDMS scientists ...
  6 days ago

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