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To: Physicist; RadioAstronomer; ThinkPlease; PatrickHenry
Any of you guys get the feeling some of the quotes are slightly out of context?
3 posted on 06/30/2003 7:11:06 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
I was thinking the same thing...

"``Cosmologists have no idea what the nature of the dark matter and the dark energy may be,'' Jordi Miralda-Escude, an astronomer

Then they go on to say what Cosmologists believe the nature of Dark Matter might be....

10 posted on 06/30/2003 7:20:33 PM PDT by RS (nc)
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To: longshadow
Any of you guys get the feeling some of the quotes are slightly out of context?

The quotes are fine, but the tone of the article strikes me as wrong. It seems to give the impression that these discoveries are a problem for astronomers and physicists. In fact, we're absolutely delighted by them. Nothing excites us like new puzzles to solve. It's an opportunity to work on something new and interesting, an opportunity to learn, and for some, an opportunity to make names for themselves.

The clarion call of science is not the triumphant "Eureka!" of Archimedes, but the indignant "Who ordered that?!" of Isidor Isaac Rabi.

19 posted on 06/30/2003 7:29:36 PM PDT by Physicist
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