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Re:Nuclear pasta in neutron stars may be the strongest mater... by tomjakubowski on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:00PM (#17996011)
Naming things is a hard problem for computer programmers, but not for physicists. For them it's all fun!
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Re:Nuclear pasta in neutron stars may be the strongest mater... by greglindahl on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:55PM (#17996217)
It's not all fun for astrophysicists: the ApJ editors are pretty strict with trying to keep cute names out of the literature. One of my profs at grad school went through quite a bit of effort to get WIMPs as a name, publishing several posters and doing conference talks before submitting to ApJ for the first time.
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Re:Nuclear pasta in neutron stars may be the strongest mater... by DiabloD3 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:28PM (#17996328)
WIMPs vs MACHOs is fucking hilarious.

Although, sadly, I think both have been exhausted as options for the dark matter search. Then again, there has been like 140 dark matter/energy papers this year, and I haven't read them all.

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