Scientists claimed to have used a billion-dolar particle accelerator to produce the highest density matter created in the universe. Why waste time and money for that and just ask a bunch of wives, who would surely answer that it is their husbands’ brains, on Sunday afternoon, that has the highest density matter.
Erma?
From the site:
Scientists say they used a particle accelerator to smash the nuclei of gold atoms together to make the highest density of matter ever created in an experiment.
Physicists who studied the debris streaming from the collisions concluded that densities (sic) more than 20 times higher than those within the nuclei of ordinary matter had been produced.
Maybe they could spend a few bucks on learning proper use of apostrophes?
What you quoted looked fine to me. Was there a problem? Where whould there have been an apostrophe?
OK, make that “where should” rather than “where whould”. Oops.
Physicists who studied the debris streaming from the collisions concluded that densities (sic) more than 20 times higher than those within the nuclei of ordinary matter had been produced.
Densities should be density’s (really density was) or densities are, if they made more than one of these things.
And what’s with the “been produced”? Should be “than those withon the nuclei of ordinary matter had produced”, no?
That whole paragraoh needs a reworking, but I have to go now. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Sorry, iampunha, but you’re wrong on this one.
To re-word:
“physicists produced densities more than 20 times higher than those within the nuclei of ordinary matter.”
While I agree that the sentence was syntactically awkward, there was nothing grammatically incorrect.
My question is: what the hell’s this doing in the Pit?
How about:
Or maybe:
Yeah, it’s passive voice. Big deal.
You’re completely wrong on the whole densities business, though.
God bless iampunha. We can always count on you for pedantic grammatical corrections.
In this case, an incorrect one - blessedwolf has it right. “Densities” is the plural of density. It’s a noun. And you spelled paragraph wrong.
Oh, and capacitor, is this in the pit because of your rockin’ Leno-esque humor about husbands and wives? Are you angry at the really dense matter for some reason? 
Scientific research got you down?
Interesting article.
I find it interesting that while they’re smashing atoms together at the speed of light, the topic of discussion is their grammar…
Did not - it was a typo. Misspelling indicates that I purposefully spelled it paragraoh, which I did not.
It’s passive voice, which is incredibly annoying, and it was worded weird, and I was and am tired. Damn kids damn job damn life.
Look, if you went out back and sodomized a goat, or you were just playing naked twister with said goat and you slipped, the result would be the same, regardless of your intentions.
Personally, I think the densest matter in the universe is that dimpled, cheese-like flesh that multiplies at an astronomical rate on a woman’s ass and thighs within days of getting married.
To understand the fundamental nature of the universe of course. Hardly a waste of time and money…unlike Sunday afternoon TV.
As far as the scientists’ grammarical use of densities vs. density’s…um, hello, that was the media, not the scientists.
The same result can have different causes. Let’s remember:
A typo is when you type something by accident. Like, say, typing paragraoh instead of paragraph. O is near P on the keyboard, so it makes sense.
A spelling mistake is where you, for example, spell discriminate descriminate. The E is not near the I such that one’s fingers could slip (unless one is using a funky keyboard).
Plus I know how to spell paragraph.
Damn… someone else proved iampunha wrong before I could get to it? Damn and double fuck.
iamphuna, no offense, but stop explaining yourself. I’m sure Enderw24 knows it was a typo. It’s just that he, and no doubt many others, seems to be getting rather pissed off at the fact that every other post you make is correcting (or, as the case may be, trying to correct) perceived spelling and grammar errors.
When I see you mention in another thread -on the very same day no less- that you have a lot of posts “because you just have a lot to say”, I can’t help but raise my eyebrows half an inch either.
Well, I’ll be. I accidentally initiated a grammar pit thread, and my post isn’t the one being corrected. The odds on that has to approach mathematical impossibility.
Let me elaborate why I started a pit thread. It seems that, in terms of reporting news to the public, some scientific institutions focused more reporting extemes in nature and the man-made world, such as reaching true absolute zero, or highest or lightest density matter, and less on discovering practical applications, such as making vehicles more fuel-efficient, tires more puncture-proof, and how to recycle the millions of old computers and monitors that are currently unused or unusable. While interesting, this news and the other news about slowing down and speeding up light rays have very little, if any practical applications at the current time. Yet these two devlopments received more prominent news coverage than the discovery of specific gene mutation that triggers drug resistance on the part of cancer patients. This is a very important development in cancer research, and it has practical applications in the near future. However, this news is relegated to the seldom-read health and science sections of the paper, while the above two are placed on the news sites’ home pages and, I’m certain, on page one of newspapers around the world. My modest attempt at humor was to point out the money spent on this relatively small “discovery” of the highest density matter, in comparison to progress in cancer research.
High density matter?
ZESTEEEEEEEEEEH!