[aMorePerfectUnion]

Science is filled with phlogiston.

[sagar]

Scientists can’t even get their $h1t together and expect us to just follow along. Oh, I thought this was a global warming thread. Sorry, carry on with the theoretical pointless physics.

[freedumb2003]

Let me save everyone some time:

phlo·gis·ton /flōˈjistän,-tən/

noun

a substance supposed by 18th-century chemists to exist in all combustible bodies, and to be released in combustion.

[Mr. K]

and that is floating in the aether

[AndyTheBear]

Does that mean the mass of science is negative?

[YogicCowboy]

I thought it was fluoristan. (Makes starlight whiter!)

[dr_lew]

"We analysed the latest catalogue of 740 Type Ia supernovae - over 10 times bigger than the original samples on which the discovery claim was based - and found that the evidence for accelerated expansion is, at most, what physicists call '3 sigma'," reports lead researcher, Subir Sarkar, from the University of Oxford.

"This is far short of the '5 sigma' standard required to claim a discovery of fundamental significance."

Whoa! This is hardly a resounding refutation! This is more like DUMB AND DUMBER ... "Yes! Then there is a chance!" ( That they might be wrong. )

"3 sigma" means that 99.7% of actually true models would pass the test. The "5 sigma" standard is intended to represent virtual certainty. In this case the implication is that the 0.3% chance that the model could be wrong disqualifies it from factitude.