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'Goopy' dark matter could offer a new vision of the early universe
Cosmologists exploring the origins of the universe have a new theory about how dark matter behaves. Although the stuff makes up 80 percent of the matter in the universe, we don't really have a good sense of what dark matter is actually made of. According to The New Scientist, however, UT Austin professor Paul Shapiro and graduate student Bouha Li believe dark matter could be made up of bosons that clump together in "a strange, goopy state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate."
ICYMI: Dark matter search, the personal plane and more
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-123513{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-123513, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-123513{width:570px;display:block;}try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-123513").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: The new Icon A5 personal aircraft is available for $189,000, shrinking middle class be damned. China's space agency launched a spacecraft to hunt for signs of dark matter's existence. And Netflix's latest Make It project is a cosy nod to what too many of us will likely be doing over holiday breaks: Going on prolonged Netflix binges. The company is giving instructions for how to construct socks that will pause your show if you should fall asleep.
Are games making us wimps?
While Jack Thompson and his ilk continue to argue that games are making us too violent, at least one blogger is arguing the opposite. As part of his "Carnival of Modern Man" series of columns, blogger raybacon argues that our regular escapes from reality are "launching a generation of wimps into the world."The author, an admitted non-gamer, argues that video games are inherently meaningless and simply serve as an escape from the harsh reality of the real world. Further, he says that people who eschew "real" experiences to sit in front of a monitor for hours on end turn into "a bunch of guys who's only recourse when 'times get tough' is to dive into a world ruled by megabytes."Obviously, games are no replacement for actually living life, but everyone needs an occasional escape from the day-to-day grind. Just because playing a game of Madden is more sedentary than playing a real game of football doesn't mean it's inherently worse, as long as the correct balance is kept. Everything in moderation, as they say.[Via PSFK]
