Massive discovery

Thanks to years of effort by people on CMS, ATLAS and the LHC, a Higgs-like particle has been found at CERN. That is the last missing part of the Standard Model. As the head of CERN said, next on the list for physicists is the "dark" Universe. Exciting times.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Wednesday 04th Jul 2012 (22:55 BST) | 2 Comments | Permalink

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Newly published paper on Gliese-581-d can be accessed and viewed from the following Press Release:

http://www.journals-of-science.com/gl-581-pr.html

Posted by Walter Trentadue on Wednesday 05th Sep 2012 (16:11 UTC)

gravatarWalter, I had a look at that press release and the rest of that site and I can quite confidently say that it is a load of rubbish.

I've watched a separate YouTube video made by the author that shows him zooming in on an image of a star that is close to Fomalhaut claiming it is one of Fomalhaut's planets. He then goes crazy with image processing to create "features". The method looks similar to what he uses for Gliese 581-d. He doesn't seem to appreciate quite how close the planet is to the star in angular separation on the sky; it is well within the resolution limit of that image. He doesn't seem to understand the basics of telescopes and imaging. Perhaps he has watched one too many Hollywood movies where they unrealistically zoom and enhance an image.

I'm sure he would decry me as not understanding his "next generation of space exploration ttechnology [sic]" but he doesn't seem too keen to provide any explanation of what that might be anyway.

Posted by Stuart on Sunday 09th Sep 2012 (14:55 UTC)

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