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by ChrisMarshallNY 217 days ago
Did he yell "They LAUGHED at me at Heidelberg! They said I was mad. MAD!"?

It is a very fundamental shift, though. The whole "Dark Energy/Matter" hypothesis has always seemed to me, to be a bit of a "Here, there be dragonnes" kind of thing, but I am nowhere near the level of these folks, so I have always assumed they know a lot that I don't.
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kulahan 216 days ago
It is, but that’s also kinda the point. It’s just a variable to stand in for “whatever tf mass we’ve been missing this whole time” or what-have-you.
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tekla 216 days ago
I've never really gotten this criticism. Science has worked on "here be dragons" ever since it became a "thing".

Neutrinos took like 40 years to discover after experiments earlier showed that either all of modern particle physics was wrong, or there was something that we couldn't see.

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ChrisMarshallNY 216 days ago
It wasn't a criticism. At least, not from me. It was just an observation.
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