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- capheine, on 11/11/2009, -3/+58The Rosetta probe sped up because the Higgs boson was shot back in time by the LHC, at which point Hitler faked the moon landing and global warming caused the financial crisis. Duh.
- Apokalyps2547, on 11/11/2009, -0/+39Woah woah woah.
They say the probe (moving faster than a bullet) got an unexpected speed boost of of a few millimeters per second?! I'm impressed with the accuracy of the measurement, for starters. - captininsanity, on 11/11/2009, -0/+22Imagine if your physics class was graded that way. All answers must be accurate to 30 significant figures.
It seems your off by 1.1e-12. Oh well that's because I use exotic physics! - eyepatch100, on 11/11/2009, -0/+19How could I have been so BLIND??
- BubblesTheChimp, on 11/11/2009, -0/+18Yes, coleslaw is delicious!
- Speedy7, on 11/11/2009, -0/+17Time to bring back Einstein.
Hey buddy, you made a mistake. - jcsoc, on 11/11/2009, -0/+15Erotic Physics have strange effects as well
- DirtyVicar, on 11/11/2009, -0/+15The gravity fluctuation is from that Vogon ship armada. Sure you all had plenty of time to prepare for the earth demolition.... the plans have been posted at Alpha Centauri for an entire year.
- MaxxusFlamus, on 11/11/2009, -0/+14WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!
- capheine, on 11/11/2009, -0/+12The so-called MAINSTREAM MEDIA
*makes quotation marks with fingers*
won't tell you about these things. WHY am I the only one BRAVE ENOUGH to talk about this? - Coven, on 11/11/2009, -0/+12What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away, you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout. Energize the demolition beam. I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
- eh123, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12Umm that's why it's called a "Theory", professor.
- Triplastic, on 11/11/2009, -0/+10Did you factor in Cole's Law?
- copypastry, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8You forgot to add something about swine flu.
- EddiePotato, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8The universe should be fined when it violates our established laws.
- TheLotusEater, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7It seems you're off by an 'e
- RealmDown, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6Better get to L'hospital
- weister42, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6I'm always impressed by the sheer volume of math involved in unmanned space travel and the fancy calculators used to solve these equations.
- FreckleEars, on 11/11/2009, -5/+11Plasma cosmology needs more research. It gets about 0.001% of the funding that relativity gets. They can't explain everything yet but relativity can't even come close. There is way to much unexplained ***** with relativity cosmology. It seems every time they cannot explain something with relativity they makes up something that works perfect... in theory, but ends up having no actual tests or results to back it up.
I'll get buried but keep this in mind, backing up theories that have no explanation with actual tested physics is no different that backing up the bible. - EddiePotato, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6Jediscript has a strong influence on the object oriented.
- kharnal, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6This is my most favoritest digg thread evar. Everyone gets dugg.
- DaviDTC, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7It wont reach its intended target until the first half of 2014. I say we continue to do Earth flybys if it keeps picking up speed. About 50,000,000 more, this one will be the third flyby, and it will be able to reach the comet in a couple months instead of the 4+ more years it currently is going to take. They should hire me!
- drstock, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5It's not "irrefutable" in any way. We already know that GR is not compatible with quantum mechanics, which just like general relativity makes great predictions in its domain. Thus the search for a grand unified theory.
- Mujokan, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5I wonder if this could have some bearing on the "dark matter" problem.
- theghoul, on 11/11/2009, -0/+4Forgot to carry the 1?
- eyepatch100, on 11/11/2009, -0/+4Gen. relativity is in no way refutable, it has a few holes (black holes, if you will). What it IS is useful, and predictive to a degree that no other theory currently is in that field.
- Harabeck, on 11/11/2009, -0/+4Each time it picks up speed, it will take longer for it to come back around get another boost from Earth. I suspect people much smarter than either of us have found the ideal way to do it, and that that's how it's being done.
- offrdbandit, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3<jedi mind trick>There is no dark matter problem...</jedi mind trick>
- neutron7, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3Eddies in the space time continuum and that is his sofa!
- df12, on 11/11/2009, -1/+4Next to the Standard Model, Relativity is the most tested theory in "modern" Physics.
Sure there are other theories out there, MOND (my personal favorite), LQG, and etc. But most of them fail or are otherwise untestable against systems that have already all but validated Relativity. - elliotys, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3This tickles my neurons!
I wonder if this is the way religious people feel when they unearth an old scroll :D - RedLTeut, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3Let's wait what happens this time. If it happens again, then perhaps all gravity calculations are off by a tiny amount because of the 'pushing gravity' duality [cf. http://everything2.com/title/pushing+gravity]. After all, we don't even know the mass of the sun except by solving the equations for gravity as we think it works since Newton.(I don't know whether I'm wrong on that, if yes please correct me and give details).
- captininsanity, on 11/11/2009, -1/+3I'd keep better track of those electrons but every time I look at them they change direction.
(not to be annoying, but someones gonna say it. It's actually 1.6e-12.) - uberlit, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2It's network lag.
- Mujokan, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2More or less, but that's related to a different problem. The dark matter issue is more about the way galaxies behave, dark energy is to do with inflation.
There's an alternative explanation for dark matter (not energy) that involves rethinking gravity, but the experiments are tricky inside the solar system. - EddiePotato, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2We have no idea what's going on in either case, so they can be considered linked only in that they both currently reside in the cosmological X-Files.
- jcsoc, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1and tricky without gravity
- RealmDown, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1oops
- RealmDown, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1They sneeze
- Snoogs, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1I hear sex would be pretty pointless without friction... especially rough sex.
- superlolz, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1The universe decided to forgo dedicated servers. :(
- Aliwalla, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Sounds like I hit a nerve. Nothing mankind will ever devise will be 'irrefutable'.
- eyepatch100, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Gen. relativity is in no way *irrefutable, sorry, quick typing
- ducksgoquak, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1tricky... but oh so fun!
- wilhoitm, on 11/12/2009, -0/+12012!
- hereticoftruth, on 11/12/2009, -1/+2I don't have enough information but my guess is the closer the flyby is to a geostationary pass, the stronger the boost effect is. I haven't given much thought on this and may come up with a different conclusion later. To some things I haven't given enough thought.
- TrainOfThought6, on 11/11/2009, -0/+0Good point...isn't dark energy supposedly the cause of the universe's unexplained acceleration?
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