This “scientific report” leaves quite a lot to be desired (to say the least). This veritable explosion of hype around a rather questionable paper is a sad testament to how media thinks it proper to report science newsflashes. Here’s a quote from one of the authors (NOT the lead author!), astro-physicist and “dark matter expert” (!), professor Paulo Salucci: . “We could even travel through this tunnel, since, based on our calculations, it could be navigable. Just like the one weve all seen in the recent film ‘Interstellar.” . And saying (as professor Salucci does) that “If wormholes do exist, they could be detected by looking for gravitational lensing effects” is just plain nonsense (see Wikipedia link below). . Mr. Salucci apparently reads way too much SF… Nothing in the paper claims that its calculations show that “a galaxy could be a navigable and traversable wormhole.” . Here’s a link to the actual paper (put into the arXiv two months after publication in Annals of Physics (Volume 350, November 2014)): arxiv.org/abs/1501.00490v1. This is not necessarily the same version as that published in AoP. It is difficult to understand how it could pass the AoP “peer review” process… From the paper abstract: . “This result is an important compliment to the earlier result [from two of the authors of the currently discussed paper (!)], thereby confirming the possible existence of wormholes in most of the spiral galaxies”… . Compliment? That’s funny! As is the notion of one hypothesis confirming another hypothesis, which in turn is confirmed by another hypothesis… Turtles, all the way down! Here’s another quote from the good professor: . Paolo Salucci: “… perhaps it’s time for scientists to take this issue ‘seriously’. Dark matter may be ‘another dimension’, perhaps even a major galactic transport system. In any case, we really need to start asking ourselves what it is”. . Perhaps? IT IS about time, no kidding… One answer: “dark matter” is science fiction, postulated in order to save the big bang hypothesis from imploding (together with “inflation,” another much over-hyped bang saver hypothesis). . The story is repeated, over and over, and it is clear that ONLY ONE of these “science reporters” have actually READ the paper, only regurgitating what the somewhat overexcited astrophysicist Paolo Salsucci (who is not the first author of the paper) told them about his personal fantasies! And BTW, this link list is NOT complete, by far: . SISSA article: goo.gl/kdBdMy SISSA press release: goo.gl/1nffKt . ScienceDirect: goo.gl/kaH7BH (this is the Elsevier site, publisher of the journal “Annals of Physics,” they charge $35.95 to access the paper. Despite its name, this journal is in no way associated with the German journal “Annalen der Physik,” publisher of Einstein’s famous papers (see goo.gl/z26voL). . ScienceDaily: goo.gl/aWa2Nx ScienceRecorder: goo.gl/Fn60gd Phys.org: goo.gl/lzVKSR AstronomyNow: goo.gl/DAFdzk World-Science.net: goo.gl/Fr5Wc6 CommentsPro: goo.gl/esIlQx (interesting “author relevancy analysis”!) NBCNews: goo.gl/MFtjxT (the ONLY somewhat decent report) NYDailyNews: goo.gl/G5Up2A EarthSky.org: goo.gl/s3UjAU EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes: goo.gl/McKsjd MarketBusinessNews: goo.gl/6PES7G News.SoftPedia: goo.gl/KZPObI CosmosUp: goo.gl/Q6Vs39 DailyMail.co.uk: goo.gl/qSdEOO IBTimes.co.uk: goo.gl/xtWamA Inquisitr: goo.gl/9oOTAK NewKerala: goo.gl/6pLjf5 PopHerald: goo.gl/WNncce AnimalNewYork: goo.gl/0J4bt6 Weblog: goo.gl/3D0nHA YouTube Video: goo.gl/aehGy3 NeoGaf Forum: goo.gl/p4C3rC (check out the comments!) . For some detail on current theories about Einstein-Rosen bridges (a.k.a. “wormholes”), see this Wikipedia article: goo.gl/WHbTMu. . One final quote (reminding me of H.C. Andersen’s fine clothes salesmen): . “The scientists, who base their conclusion on complex mathematical models, say the portal could be constructed from dark matter — invisible material making up around 26% of the universe whose nature is unknown.” . A Universe whose nature is unknown, indeed! LOL!
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:27:04 +0000
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