Slog - Comments on Mysteries of the universe unraveling http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/mysteries_of_the_uni After painstakingly observing two galaxies collide at 10 million miles per hour, scientists think they have proof that dark matter exists! Dark matter doesn't emit or reflect enough light to actually be detected directly, but scientists have long believed that they can infer that it exists because of its effects on visible matter. For example, astro-stud Fritz Zwicky first theorized the existense of dark matter back in the 1930s. From Wikipedia: Zwicky estimated the total amount of mass in a cluster of galaxies... based on the motions of the galaxies near the edge of the cluster. When he compared this... Copyright 2007 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:30:47 -0800 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:04:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Blob Who cares about dark matter. There are only 8 planets now. Last week there were 12. The week before there were 9.

Don't mess with my Pluto!

]]> Blob http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/mysteries_of_the_uni#c449632 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/mysteries_of_the_uni#c449632 News Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:15:24 -0800 Comment by Queequeg All this is just New Age bullshit. Next thing they'll try and pull on us is that time is relative, not absolute.

]]> Queequeg http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/mysteries_of_the_uni#c449642 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/mysteries_of_the_uni#c449642 News Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:04:28 -0800