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Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won't die

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  Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won't die Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 08:47 -0500
    Re: Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won't die jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-30 17:16 +0000

#529127 — Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won't die

Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won't die
> http://www.nature.com/news/zombie-physics-6-baffling-results-that-just-won-t-die-1.18685

> When a scientific result seems to show something genuinely new,
> subsequent experiments are supposed to either confirm it — triggering
> a textbook rewrite — or show it to be a measurement anomaly or
> experimental blunder. But some findings seem to remain forever stuck
> in the middle ground between light and shadow. Even efforts to
> replicate these results — normally science’s equivalent of Valyrian
> steel — have little effect. Welcome to the realm of undead physics.
>
> Ahead of Halloween, Nature guides you through some findings in
> physics, astronomy and cosmology that researchers have repeatedly
> left for dead — only to find that they keep coming back.
>
> 1. Axis of Evil
> 2. Seasonally spooky dark matter
> 3. Glowing galactic saga
> 4. Diabolical proton discrepancy
> 5. Devilish OMG particles
> 6. Eternal fluctuations of Big G

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won't die
>> http://www.nature.com/news/zombie-physics-6-baffling-results-that-just-won-t-die-1.18685
> 
>> When a scientific result seems to show something genuinely new,
>> subsequent experiments are supposed to either confirm it ? triggering
>> a textbook rewrite ? or show it to be a measurement anomaly or
>> experimental blunder. But some findings seem to remain forever stuck
>> in the middle ground between light and shadow. Even efforts to
>> replicate these results ? normally science?s equivalent of Valyrian
>> steel ? have little effect. Welcome to the realm of undead physics.
>>
>> Ahead of Halloween, Nature guides you through some findings in
>> physics, astronomy and cosmology that researchers have repeatedly
>> left for dead ? only to find that they keep coming back.
>>
>> 1. Axis of Evil
>> 2. Seasonally spooky dark matter
>> 3. Glowing galactic saga
>> 4. Diabolical proton discrepancy
>> 5. Devilish OMG particles
>> 6. Eternal fluctuations of Big G

Puerile crap, shit head.

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Jim Pennino

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