It’s an interesting couple of ideas that I can’t bring together at the moment, the idea that when the stakes are high (greatest energy flux) it produces a higher rate of rotation with greater entropy flux into and around the singularity. It’s litrallahly sucking us in.
Oh wait, that was that spec script idea I was working on for the next revival of the Stargate TV series. Silly me.
Entropy is a property of systems described by other physical laws; I don’t see how it invoking it can possibly allow you to violate them. But presumably this passed some kind of review, so sure, let’s trust that it changes the expected radial velocity for stars in our galaxy somehow.
Then all you need is to also come up with alternate explanations for the velocities of galaxies in clusters, the magnitude of gravitational lensing they cause, the timing of supercluster formation, the spectrum of cosmic background anisotropy, and a few more things like that, and poof! you’ve done away with dark matter. They glossed over that work, but it’s a trivial amount more, right?
I really don’t get why people are so keen on dismissing dark matter anyway. Sure, it’s puzzling stuff. But assuming that all gravitational physics is probably way off-base despite giving much better accounts for multiple phenomena than anything else, because it’s implausible our universe could contain any material that doesn’t interact with light, seems like a really weird prior.
this is not “definitely true science news” 
Fair, but there’s “this is not held up by further investigation” not true and there’s “anyone who understands basic physics can see this doesn’t make any sense” not true. I’d like to think that I am more likely to be mistaken about the latter than Scientific Reports is.
The analogy they draw between electromagnetic waves and DNA sounds like classic Chopra woo
ALSO: based on measurements of the particles in my room, 27% of the universe is cat hair
i’m never sure how many edits i can get away with in a post before incurring the orange pencil of shame
As many as you want… Until the timer hits five minutes.
The orange pencil is a badge of honour. You care enough about what you’re writing to make sure that it is as accurate and grammatical as possible. 
I’ve been penciled at two minutes before. Maybe something to do with oneboxes?
And sometimes you can make the pencil go away by undoing the last edit, but not reliably 
The only time I’ve seen that happen is when I’ve deleted and reinstated the post.
Some of us get it right the first time. /snob
Ha! I was a magazine editor back in the '80s. I have yet to meet a piece of writing (of more than a sentence in length) that can’t benefit from a bit of rewriting.
Oh, yeah. I go into infinite loops of rewriting, which is almost as bad as not doing it at all.
That describes my method of composing - add 2 new bars, polish 8. Eventually, however, the earlier passages freeze into place as I’ve already considered all the viable options by that point…
140 characters.
280 now.
You live in a universe with less cat hair?! That would really be groundbreaking news! But my experience leads me to believe you might’ve just missed some spots.
Good grief. I’m going to take a shit every time I have the urge. Also fuck that guy.
At least. unlike much of the other advice politicians give, we know that he’s been practicing what he preaches.
How else could he be so full of shit?
