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from the einstein-dismisses-india-scientists dept.
BBC:
Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress dismissed the findings of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
Hindu mythology and religion-based theories have increasingly become part of the Indian Science Congress agenda.
But experts said remarks at this year's summit were especially ludicrous.
[...] The head of a southern Indian university cited an old Hindu text as proof that stem cell research was discovered in India thousands of years ago.
G Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of Andhra University, also said a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka.
Another scientist from a university in the southern state of Tamil Nadu told conference attendees that Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were both wrong and that gravitational waves should be renamed "Narendra Modi Waves" [Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India].
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday January 10 2019, @02:00AM (1 child)
It's reality. The only uncertainty is whether the gap can be made up.
Neutrinos and photons never will be normal matter. And MACHOs are a consequence of high mass and low surface area, which gives its usually baryonic matter (though black holes are a more exotic possibility) an unusually low visibility.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday January 10 2019, @03:21AM
> The only uncertainty is whether the gap can be made up.
Exactly. And until we have concrete evidence of the presence of something in sufficient quantities that it *can* fill the gap (or at least a large part of it) all we're doing is speculating and dithering with rounding errors, and Dark Matter remains undiscovered.