Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity
Oringally posted on Slashdot: “…a new paper by scientists at the University of Victoria has demonstrated that one of the prime observational justifications for the existence of dark matter can be explained without any dark matter at all, by a proper use of general relativity!”
via digg
Assuming this is true (which I think it could very well be) – it’s nice to see that Occam’s Razor, and Einstein’s amazing foresight have been proved effective once again.
And, if you’ll allow me to take a somewhat tangential remark, take it further to a metaphysical point of view and it can segue to an “it depends” situation… and we all know how popular an answer that is.
What camera is the best? What’s the best car? What is the ideal man/woman? Is x form of government good? What’s the best conduct for competition?
I’m beginning to wonder if this too, is answer the age-old question: Why are we here?
I must be really bored… to be coming up with [pathetic, corny] digressions such as these.
Seriously, going back to the actual topic, I dare anyone to try visualizing the paper’s abstract. I wish they’d include pictures so my small brain would understand it better.