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Missing Matter Found, Skin To Neurons, FeelingSmall, Moon Mystery, Interview With Robert Brand RE: Balloons To Space, And Much More…
Universe’s Missing Mass Found!
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Interview with Robert Brand…
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I am a regular listener of the TWIS podcast and I usually find it both informative and entertaining. I just started listening to the latest episode, only to delete the podcast in frustration about 20 minutes into it. I am sure Kai (I hope I spelled that properly) is a wonderful child, but I don’t want to listen to a baby when I trying to listen to a podcast. I sincerely hope this is not going to be a regular part of the podcast in the future.
Thank you.
Dobie.
Re: Missing Mass
This article is abhorrently misleading!
Astrophysicists have known about these galactic filaments for years.
They are OLD NEWS!
The published paper even refers to a 2004 catalog of galactic filaments.
The NEW NEWS is that Fraser-McKelvi helped Pimbblet et al. identify these KNOWN galactic filaments in a particular set of X-ray data.
These X-ray data were collected by the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.
On their homepage, you can clearly see this “missing mass” in the form of galactic filaments.
It is not news, and the mass has not been missing since 2003…
The study was new; it confirmed what scientists have known and theorized. Who said that galactic filaments were new news?
great show!
I remember the world was much bigger when i was a kid to I’m glad science agrees with me.
Rather enjoyed kai’s intervention. I hope for super science baby corner more often, he knows how to deal with justin.
keep up the great work
You did. Science Daily did. At least you both implied it.
To any listener, myself included (until I did more research), this implies the subject (filaments) were found recently.
They were not. They were found in 2004.
First, as Justin oft remind us, you can’t PROVE a theory, you can only find strong evidence.
Second, this language gives the clear impression her discovery is the FIRST strong evidence.
It is not. Detection of these filaments existed in 2004, when Amelia was 15 years old.
The headline is misleading. The article is misleading.
If you had mentioned in anything at all the unique contents of this new study, I would have surely kept my mouth shut.
I’m not trying to start an argument.
I’m just trying to supply information lacking in your program and the Science Daily news article.
At least Justin mentioned that filament sounds like a funny word; crucial information for a complete understanding of this subject.
I’m a relatively new listener (this was my 2nd episode), but wanted to drop you guys a line to thank you for putting TWIS out there. I don’t disagree with Dobie’s comment but was willing to forgive all after the Cybermen reference 😉
Re: TWIS episode published June 2, 2011
Kia is experiencing a fleeting stage of life that we all went through, but that’s universally lost to our adult memories. It was a natural and thought provoking honor to hear her doing what babies do during net-casts. Perfectly congruent in a show dedicated to discovery and understanding. Thank you for boldly choosing to privilege us.
Good Science At Y’all – Brett Munson
Oopth, I meant “Kai,” but you know who I was talking about.