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Submission + - CERN physicist says Dark Matter is an illusion (physorg.com)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Thursday August 11, 2011 @05:38PM

anonymousNR writes: CERN physicist has a new theory on explaining the rotational curves of galaxies. According to him

“The key message of my paper is that dark matter may not exist and that phenomena attributed to dark matter may be explained by the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum,” Hajdukovic told PhysOrg.com. “The future experiments and observations will reveal if my results are only (surprising) numerical coincidences or an embryo of a new scientific revolution.”

Given the many theories around explaining various observations in recent times, there seems to be a breakthrough is on its way in our understanding of the cosmos.

Submission + - Amazon, MS and Yahoo against Google's Library (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by anonymousNR on Friday August 21, 2009 @04:15PM

anonymousNR writes: Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many online works. "Google is trying to monopolise the library system," the Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle told BBC News.

The article criticizes the approach that is being taken by Google.

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