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Well, it IS grandiose if true (like the word suggest anticipate). I don't see how is this not accurate.

posterboy 9y ago
Mystery is a weasel-word and I suppose the article doesn't explain what is so mysterious about the universes existence, because if it would be explained, it wouldn't be mysterious. Edit: okay, it's in the first paragraph, but still. Scientists are trying to detect new particles or particle interactions. Nothing new about that, superficially speaking. but it doesn't explain all of the big bang, maybe a piece of the puzzle, but not at all why it happened.
- pvg 9y ago
  'Mystery' is not a 'weasel word', unless you find something particularly weasely about the concept of mystery itself.
  - posterboy 9y ago
    Mystery is the epitome of weasel words. A weasel word obscures rather than clarifying. Something obscure is a mysterious. See also my edit. Another offense to scientific writing is the antropomorphism. It's actually the scientists who actively suggest the story and they surely wouldn't go for quite as bold a statement. In terms of storytelling we can assume that there's a lot of importance in what isn't said, and that's often achieved by exaggeration of known wrongs, as in sarcasm. Nothing particularly wrong about that, but not terribly scientific. Take away the whole fluff and you have a report about an experimental result with low p-value and the plan to improve it via added reaction mass which is not further explained. That's hardly the mystery, it's a key to the puzzle, maybe. Edit: to elaborate further on the weaselisms. Solutio to mystery kinda annihilates, just like antiparticles and counterparts, so the headline corrected for all would be: Scientists suggest Neutrinos prove Universes Existence. Welp, color me slightly unimpressed. Though I'm complaining on a high level, this is actually super cool just not new to me.
    - pvg 9y ago
      "Solution to mystery" kinda annihilates, just like antiparticles and counterparts It's interesting you've invented your own quantum chromodynamics of English but, really, that's a perfectly normal, pedestrian (stable, if you prefer) and widely used phrase with a clear, unambiguous meaning.

Mystery is a weasel-word and I suppose the article doesn't explain what is so mysterious about the universes existence, because if it would be explained, it wouldn't be mysterious. Edit: okay, it's in the first paragraph, but still. Scientists are trying to detect new particles or particle interactions. Nothing new about that, superficially speaking. but it doesn't explain all of the big bang, maybe a piece of the puzzle, but not at all why it happened.

pvg 9y ago
'Mystery' is not a 'weasel word', unless you find something particularly weasely about the concept of mystery itself.
- posterboy 9y ago
  Mystery is the epitome of weasel words. A weasel word obscures rather than clarifying. Something obscure is a mysterious. See also my edit. Another offense to scientific writing is the antropomorphism. It's actually the scientists who actively suggest the story and they surely wouldn't go for quite as bold a statement. In terms of storytelling we can assume that there's a lot of importance in what isn't said, and that's often achieved by exaggeration of known wrongs, as in sarcasm. Nothing particularly wrong about that, but not terribly scientific. Take away the whole fluff and you have a report about an experimental result with low p-value and the plan to improve it via added reaction mass which is not further explained. That's hardly the mystery, it's a key to the puzzle, maybe. Edit: to elaborate further on the weaselisms. Solutio to mystery kinda annihilates, just like antiparticles and counterparts, so the headline corrected for all would be: Scientists suggest Neutrinos prove Universes Existence. Welp, color me slightly unimpressed. Though I'm complaining on a high level, this is actually super cool just not new to me.
  - pvg 9y ago
    "Solution to mystery" kinda annihilates, just like antiparticles and counterparts It's interesting you've invented your own quantum chromodynamics of English but, really, that's a perfectly normal, pedestrian (stable, if you prefer) and widely used phrase with a clear, unambiguous meaning.