Tuesday, April 10, 2012

BOSS: The Universe's Most Precise Measurement

I'm sure that people who have studied cosmology, both theoretical and observational, in extreme depth, for a period of upwards of 20 years, are going to be devestated that "Proudrooster" and "decora" on Slashdot have shattered their entire field with a few brief sentences. Such a waste of man-hours! I'm sure the two of you will be quick to provide us with alternative models of cosmology and interpret them properly for the layman, causing no ambiguities in those who don't fully comprehend the fruits of your genius.

Seriously, "a headline grab"? This is the ninth data release of a massive project that's been going for more than twenty years since it was first planned in detail, it's been studied by hundreds of extremely well qualified physicists, astronomers and engineers, and is providing data for all of us in the field to use to test models which we construct, from which we extract observable parameters, and test against observation... and you think it's a fucking headline grab? You think it's arrogant? The mind fucking boggles.

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