Now, read the Encyclopedia Brittanica and report back to me...We will reserve your temporary allotment of unused bandwidth while you are occupied and the mail servers cool down.
Hey i just found out they have an online version! On Tuesday, August 21, 2012, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 04:51 PM 8/21/2012, ChemE Stewart wrote: > >> <http://www.science20.com/**news_articles/lots_dark_** >> matter_near_sun_says_computer_**model-92910<http://www.science20.com/news_articles/lots_dark_matter_near_sun_says_computer_model-92910> >> >http://www.**science20.com/news_articles/**lots_dark_matter_near_sun_** >> says_computer_model-92910<http://www.science20.com/news_articles/lots_dark_matter_near_sun_says_computer_model-92910> >> >> Waiting for Abd to confirm what this is or isn't... >> > > Okay, I looked. I confirm that this is an article on Science 2.0, > containing speculative interpretation of a computer model. The model was > based on study of the motion of thousands of (stated in one paragraph) or > more than 400 (stated in another) orange K dwarf stars in the vicinity of > the Sun. From this, it appears to me that they inferred the total mass in > the vicinity of the sun. The article is incoherent, parts seem > unintelligible or self-contradictory. It's hard to find good help. > > "Dark matter" is a name for "stuff we don't know about." The reearchers > are reportedly saying that they are "99% confident" that there is dark > matter near the sun, but then the text manages to confuse this totally. > > Then the article explains that one of the coauthors of the study said, "If > dark matter is a fundamental particle, billions of these particles will > have passed through your body by the time your finish reading this article." > > What if I'm a speed reader? What if I'm not reading the article? What if > I'm so offended by "your finish reading" that I never finish, I pass away > in a fit of grammar frenzy? Ah, what if dark matter is really tiny so that > there are trillions and trillions of them. However, quoting the same > source, we are told: > > "Knowing the local properties of dark matter is the key to revealing just > what kind of particle it consists of." > > I couldn't have guessed that knowing the properties of a thing would help > reveal what it is. > > It *really is hard* to find good help. > > Next question? >
