Relational Biology can no more be done without the mathematics than without the biology. Heuristic, exploratory, and expository discussions of a topic, valuable as they may be, do not become the topic itself; one must distinguish the science from the meta-science.
— Aloisius Louie , More Than Life itself

Archive for March, 2008

Is the Dark Matter Occluded by the Multiverse?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

At what point in science is does it become unreasonable to prop up hypothetical substances or entities? The title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek poke at a couple of well-entrenched, yet wholly unsubstantiated, such entities. This week Nature News reports optimistically on the continued absence of evidence for dark matter[1]:

Physicists have again returned empty-handed […]

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