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"If the Universe were your local neighborhood, dark matter is the family that communicates with everyone, even other family members, only by changing the name o
by gregcoombe 9y ago
"If the Universe were your local neighborhood, dark matter is the family that communicates with everyone, even other family members, only by changing the name of their WiFi network."
Ha! There are a couple of other gems in the article. Entertaining and educational.
- mcguire 9y agoIt's a fun way to describe the difference, if possibly not entirely clear to someone who knew nothing. But the description of the actual result is very clear and very well done.
- nategri 9y agoTIL that SSIDs exhibit weak force coupling
- KGIII 9y agoThat's actually pretty horrible. Gotta be honest. HN has enough people who could design a protocol and hardware to do exactly that with wifi. HN can't adequately explain dark matter, except to say it is a placeholder and to define how we observe the effect. Anything more than that is conjecture and anyone who says otherwise is a dirty rotten liar. Really. I hate the name Dark Matter. It's a horrible name. But, someone here understands electromagnetism well enough, pulse signaling, electronics, binary, spectrums, radio, whatever. They could build some sort of mesh network to do exactly that. They could probably build it with COTS and do it for pretty cheap - and write you a damned good paper. Don't have a damned clue what Dark Matter really is. Nope. Edit: Hell, now that I think about it, someone here would probably set that up on like their ham radio stuff at 600 baud just for fun and make it all operate out of terminal. That's a compliment, really. There'd be a Show HN and someone would tell them it had an Emacs shortcut.