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The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

-Thomas Hobbes

NASA Announces Dark Matter Discovery

Well, they announced that they will announce it, anyway.

Astronomers who used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, to announce how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.

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Shortly before the start of the briefing, images and graphics about the research will be posted at: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/

Briefing participants:
- Maxim Markevitch, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
- Doug Clowe, postdoctoral fellow, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
- Sean Carroll, assistant professor of physics, University of Chicago, Ill.

A video file about the discovery will air on NASA TV at noon, Aug. 21.

Audio of the event will be streamed live on the Web at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

That's all they're giving us so far, but it sounds intriguing. I'll be watching.

Posted by Rick on August 15, 2006 at 02:14 PM

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I really hope this announcement will shed some light on the subject. I expect that a few of the images will be worth showing on the first day of class.

Nice find.

Posted by: Wulf at August 15, 2006 3:56 PM

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

-Thomas Hobbes

NASA Announces Dark Matter Discovery

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