Most folks have an understanding of physics that goes up to Newton (which is a fine place to stop - you can do a lot with Newton) - and with that paradigm, “science” is the thing that goes step by step to predict what’s going to happen. “Magic” is the thing that starts with the desired end point, and makes stuff happen to fulfill it (“I wish that guy was dead” - and an acorn falls, to startle a bird, which flies in front of a 18-wheeler, which takes the turn too wide and wipes out that guy’s car"). But more modern formulations of physics include Lagrangian approaches, which sound more like the magic formulation.
Hence said one critic:
“For the moment we might very well call them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).” –Bill Bryson
The thing is when dark matter was first proposed it was thought to be almost certain that it would turn out to be one particular form of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs), namely heavy supersymmetric particles which were proposed for an extension of Grand Unified Theory which would link all fermion particles with all boson particles and vice-versa. The only problem is that supersymmetry is now almost completely dead as a theory- we would have detected the lightest members of this proposed class by now. So the WIMP model of dark matter has fallen back on more speculative possible particles such as axions or other such.
In my more despondent moods I sometimes propose that “dark matter” will NEVER be detected. That every testable prediction for what it might be will be tried and fail. That the anomalous movement of galaxies will remain a hole in science forever; a wizard did it.
I don’t think that’s quite what Gödel proved; AIUI, he proved that for any formal system of axiomatic logic one can, by definition of the axioms themselves, produce statements which are unprovable within that system of logic. Hence there is no such thing as a perfect self-contained system of logic.
I’m hoping it turns out that there isn’t dark matter after all, but rather the behavior that dark matter explains ends up being explained by new laws of physics we have not confirmed or even thought of yet.
Dark matter is what, 85% of all matter? It feels like we’re missing something that will become obvious after the next Einstein has their own annus mirabilis.
He missed Two Nice Girls. Tell you the truth, I don’t follow music any more, so I’m not sure what numbers go with most of those names. OK, Nine Inch Nails and 2 Live Crew, but the rest…
Who else besides me had to add up the bands to make sure it totaled 176?
I did, they do.
21 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 100 + 3 + 9 + 1 + 1 + 30
Also the alt-text:
99 + 101 + 1000 = 1200
There appear to be a handful of songs called 1000 Miles, but none (in my estimation) is terribly well-known.
I wonder if he’s combining the Proclaimers’ 500 Miles and Rosanne Cash’s 500 Miles?
Or even just the Proclaimers’ 500 miles + 500 more = 1000
Though Vanessa Carlton’s A Thousand Miles peaked at #5 on the BIllboard Hot 100, which isn’t too shabby.
So much for 10,000 Maniacs, guess they got blacklisted, or won’t all fit in the concert hall.
.38 Special had to cancel due to a rounding error.
There’s a group called Tree3:
https://www.tree3band.com/
TREE(3) is a very, very large number. If you used every atom in the universe to write down the number using “normal” math notation, you still wouldn’t come anywhere close to it.
They threw an InvalidOperationException on the attempted addition of a double to a running total of ints
Tell me you’re not a White Chick* without telling me you’re not a White Chick*
Shouldn’t it be 68,040,000?
You’d only get 176.3799999999999954525264911353588104248046875 anyway.
Shouldn’t what be 68,040,000?
The number of pilots seconds of summer non blondes live crew GECS doors down inch nails Republic direction seconds to Mars.
You better explain how you got that number.