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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -Plato
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Chad Orzel takes a commenter to task for fetishizing peer review:
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there is an amusing rumour on the resonaances blog about cold dark matter
The CDMS experiment is a Cold Dark Matter Search experiment, looking for nuclear recoil in lab detectors, due to scattering of weakly interacting massive particles with normal matter.
[hmm, link is to UC site for CDMS - the…
The first serious advocate of modifying Newton's laws instead of postulating unseen (or dark) matter was Moti Milgrom, from whom today a new article appears on the astrophysics preprint archives.
In particular, Milgrom asserts the following:
MOND predictions imply that baryons alone accurately…