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Unlocking the secrets of the universe (Original Post) Jim__ Feb 2018 OP
I ❤ science. AJT Feb 2018 #1
Totally cool. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #2
Just spoke to my astronomer son. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #3

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,902 posts)
2. Totally cool.
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 04:26 PM
Feb 2018

Thanks for the link.

My son is in a PhD program in astronomy and physics, and while right now he's doing research connected to exo-planets, he's also quite knowledgeable about this stuff, too, the early universe. In fact, we often talk about this very stuff.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,902 posts)
3. Just spoke to my astronomer son.
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 10:26 PM
Feb 2018

He of course accessed the actual paper that was written. He hadn't yet heard about it, and was pleased I'd turned him on to it.

And he says that this is essentially definitive proof of dark matter.

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