If You Only Knew the Power of the Dark Side

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First Higgs Boson now this

 

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view/20120705dark_matter_filament_found_scientists_say/srvc=home&position=recent

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If the data is good enough for Manoj Kaplinghat, it's good enough for me.

 

At least until Koytus Craponmyshoe or Otis Sistrunk disputes it.

 

Seriously, this passes for proof?

 

Using data from the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the XMM-Newton space telescope, researchers examined 40,341 background galaxies for signs of distortion. They used a model to subtract out the masses of the galaxy clusters and then fit the remaining mass with a model of what a filament might look like. They found that a filament must be present, and that it was actually much longer than it seemed.