• Owl [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Looks like it's something with low-frequency gravitational waves, and the people involved are doing more measurement than theory. I'll guess they discovered a particularly wacky dark matter object. Maybe they found something weirder or more fundamental though.

    Also, one of the scientists involved says it's aliens, but she's clearly a born shitposter.

    • LibsEatPoop [any]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      she's clearly a born shitposter.

      Lovely, we’ve now reached the stage where even scientists aren’t free from the brain rot.

    • fart_the_peehole [he/him,any]
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      2 years ago

      I'm gonna guess it's about galaxy formation, that seems to be a focus of their gravitational wave thing. It might adjust some stuff in our understanding of cosmic history but I'd be very surprised if it's about really close-to-the-big-bang stuff, which is what a lot of people think of as foundational

    • Parzivus [any]
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      2 years ago

      The account for the NanoGRAV organization listing them/them pronouns is pretty funny

      • Owl [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The surprisingly rare plural them.