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"I have failed to find dark matter, but I got a very pleasant consolation prize"
- eof 16y agobah. please don't link to things behind a wall
- parasctr 16y agouse this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=677&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/science/space/10galaxy.html&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=136...
- eof 16y agoThanks, I do know how to get access (I mean, I am sure I registered in the past anyway) but it's still trashy to click a link on a site like HN and be prompted with a login before you see the content.
- donohoe 16y agoThe situation is that after 8 views (aprox) of articles you're asked to Register. You can always clear the NYT cookie or switch browsers or whatever.
- flipbrad 16y agoit's an interesting point, that. should news aggregators consciously avoid paywalled articles, and if so, why? Do they increase the ratio of noise to signal her, because few people can benefit from them (hence they are pure noise to most people here)? That's quite the irony, since their entire selling point is that paywalled content is higher signal, lower noise. Perhaps it comes down to the aggregator's audience. Some will be more willing to pay to get past paywalls, for articles recommended to them by that aggregator, or have a higher tendency to already be paying customers. Hence P(article recommendation will be appreciated) will tend higher there, because P(article will be viewable) is higher.
- AgentConundrum 16y agoWhat wall?
- jsm386 16y agoThe writer had fun with this paragraph. I know stories like these in the general press are ragged on often (rightfully), but seriously? Would a writer in the Politics or Business sections ever get something like the 2nd sentence past their editor? The source of the bubbles is a mystery. One possibility is that they are fueled by a wave of star births and deaths at the center of the galaxy. Another option is a gigantic belch from the black hole known to reside, like Jabba the Hutt, at the center of the Milky Way. What it is apparently not is dark matter, the mysterious something that astronomers say makes up a quarter of the universe and holds galaxies together.
- lukifer 16y ago> A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... > ...known to reside, like Jabba the Hutt, at the center of the Milky Way. A lesson to all the mainstream writers out there: don't drop references if you can't get them right. :P
- albemuth 16y agoAnd I believe Luke says that Tatooine is nowhere near the center of its galaxy
- jonhendry 16y agoClearly the better reference was not Jabba the Hutt, but the maw of the Sarlacc.
- drakep 16y agoPay Wall =(
- iloveyouocean 16y agoSo they have basically discovered The High Beyond.
- naturalethic 16y agoLooks like an electromagnetic field. I wonder why they didn't make that connection.
- mbreese 16y agoThat's funny. I didn't think of that, I immediately thought that it looked like an atomic p-orbital. Then again, I was a biochemistry major...
- ebrenes 16y agoI couldn't help but think about Warhammer 40k's Astronomicon (http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Astronomicon http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Astronomicon) since that's supposed to extend for about 50,0000 light years as well. Then again, I am a bit of a WH40k fan...
- wallfly 16y agoZ-pinch!!! See: http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/KukushkinKartinovCos.pdf http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/KukushkinKartinovC...
- donohoe 16y ago“Wow,” said David Spergel, an astrophysicist at Princeton who was not involved in the work.