Last night I attended a fun event put together by the Illinois Science Council on the science of the spooky. My friend Dan Hooper, an astrophysicist at Fermilab, was presenting on “The physics of ghosts” (specifically: why they wouldn’t work), and it seemed like there might be some opportunity to heckle.
Before Dan, though, there was [...]
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Posted in Science and Culture, tagged Ghosts, Pseudoscience on October 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Dark matter says “boo!”
Posted in Astronomy, tagged Astronomy, Dark Matter, Ghosts on September 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Very broadly speaking, the universe is made of three things. About 22% of it holds stuff together. This is called dark matter. Another 74% of it is pushing everything apart; this is dark energy. The last 4% is “everything else” and attends to inconsequential details like galaxies, stars, life, light, and Brad Pitt. While a [...]
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