No. That's called science. You come up with theories based upon what you've seen in experiments, and then try to do experiments which will provide evidence for/against the theory. Things in Astrophysics are just a bit messed up because we've evidence for things that act in certain ways (for example dark matter and dark energy) but we've not got much evidence yet for what they are. By thinking what makes sense from what we do know you can hopefully come up with ways to test it.
Posts by Michael Mokrysz
11 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2011
Astronomers map largest ever zone of dark matter
Chinese coal blamed for global warming er... cooling
EU cloud data can be secretly accessed by US authorities
Scotland Yard still have no idea why their network fell over
Glasgow cammer not thrown in slammer
'Indestructible' rootkit enslaves 4.5m PCs in 3 months
600 tonne asteroid in low pass above Falkland Islands - TONIGHT
BT, TalkTalk refused appeal against Digital Economy Act
Apple dealers hit with Lion bar
Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
Tuesday 14th June 2011 21:42 GMT
Troll?
Not to say that I have no trust in the Reg, but I do find it a bit dubious that something so supposedly thought through seems to have nothing online except months/years old speculation. I can't help but wondering if this is really just a well-written (and actually possibly true) experiment.
Mine's the coat with 'sceptic' stamped on it...