http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/04/21/checking-in/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:24:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/04/21/checking-in/#comment-15058 Cynthia Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:06:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/04/21/checking-in/#comment-15058 Speaking as an outsider to physics, I hope to live to see the discovery of dark matter, especially dark energy. Perhaps it is too fanciful to imagine hitting two birds with one stone. The dark energy bird (a confluent flyer) and the dark matter bird (a discrete flyer) are probably too dissimilar to be "hit with one stone." Being dark is probably the only characteristic that these two mysterious entities have in common. Despite the reckless nature of my "bird" analogy, I wish you well on your hunt for dark matter. Speaking as an outsider to physics, I hope to live to see the discovery of dark matter, especially dark energy. Perhaps it is too fanciful to imagine hitting two birds with one stone. The dark energy bird (a confluent flyer) and the dark matter bird (a discrete flyer) are probably too dissimilar to be “hit with one stone.” Being dark is probably the only characteristic that these two mysterious entities have in common. Despite the reckless nature of my “bird” analogy, I wish you well on your hunt for dark matter.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/04/21/checking-in/#comment-15057 Mark Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:20:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/04/21/checking-in/#comment-15057 Hi Ben, yes - I think they will be. Hi Ben, yes - I think they will be.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/04/21/checking-in/#comment-15056 Ben L Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:35:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/04/21/checking-in/#comment-15056 Mark, do you know if the talks will be posted online? Mark, do you know if the talks will be posted online?

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