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longship

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1. Holy Shit!

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Jul 4, 2012, 04:23 PM

Jul 2012

I would quibble about the percentage -- which seems to be 20-some percent dark matter and 70-some percent dark energy. But this may be important physics.

If they break something in physics, that's good. It means new stuff, always a good thing.

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Dark matter’s tendrils revealed for the first time..Nature [View all] Ichingcarpenter Jul 2012 OP

Holy Shit! longship Jul 2012 #1

That's 6.5 × 10[sup]13[/sup] and 9.8 × 10[sup]13[/sup], for those who were wondering ... eppur_se_muova Jul 2012 #2