Re: spell checker. LOL yes well that's why on android it's humoursly called AutoGiberish.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:56 AM glen∈ℂ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure how magnetism plays into all this. But it is interesting > that these are ultra diffuse galaxies. Maybe there is something wrong with > how we extrapolate the rules in flat space to the rules in very bent space, > where everything gets so weird. It seems (to me) that a regular galaxy > would be more like a colloidal solution, with lots of little clumps of bent > space (heavy things like brown dwarves[†] and such). Such a pock-marked, > bristly, region of space must be more difficult to model than something > relatively well-behaved like an ultra diffuse galaxy. Right? In the > vicinity of "almost singularities" (very heavy objects), any measurement or > calculation error will have more of an impact on the result. > > [†] I forgot to turn off the real-time spell checker on this new-to-me > computer and, lo and behold, "dwarves" is not the plural of "dwarf"! WTF? > https://grammarist.com/usage/dwarfs-dwarves/ tells me it's a neologism > popularized by Tolkien. So, by using it, I'm wearing my Dork on my sleeve. > > On 3/31/19 4:24 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > So it's possible that what we think of as dark matter could be more to do > > with a whole lot of magnets/lots and lots and lots of gravity energy and > > makes things go weird? > > Or weirder? > > > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 3:25 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> > https://news.yale.edu/2019/03/29/new-studies-confirm-existence-galaxies-almost-no-dark-matter > >> > >>> The finding was highly significant because it showed that dark matter > is > >> not always associated with traditional matter on a galactic scale. It > also > >> ruled out several theories that said dark matter is not a substance but > a > >> manifestation of the laws of gravity on a cosmic scale. > >> -- > >> glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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