{"id":11092,"date":"2013-03-21T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2013-03-21T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:05:23","slug":"goddamn-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/goddamn-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"Goddamn Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, did you hear that Planck released its results<\/a> today? The universe remains preposterous, if still pretty awesome. And it might be lopsided<\/a>, which is intriguing.<\/p>\n

Planck says that dark matter makes up 26% of the universe, while the best-fit WMAP number from a few years ago was 23%. This led me to joke on Twitter that we needed a model in which the dark matter density was rapidly increasing. Just a joke, people! <\/p>\n

I hope to say something more substantive soon, but in the meantime there’s plenty of good stuff around the web; at the risk of leaving many people out, see Ethan Siegel<\/a>, or Jester<\/a>, or simply refuse to see the universe through anyone’s filter but your own and read the original papers<\/a>. (An even thirty of them, helpfully indexed by the ultramodern system of Roman numerals.) <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, our old friend the Higgs boson has not gone away. Here’s<\/a> the second of the videos I did for Sixty Symbols<\/a> while visiting the UK (after the first one I did on quantum mechanics<\/a>). <\/p>\n

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Talking about the Higgs Boson - Sixty Symbols<\/div><\/div>
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