Quote o' the Day: Roger Cicala

"Assumptions are the dark matter of the internet; we can’t see them, but we know they account for most of the mass."

—Roger Cicala, from "More Ultra High-Resolution MTF Experiments"

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[Yonatan Katznelson]

Assumptions are the dark matter of all of humanity's accumulated knowledge, such as it is.

[Luke]

In this article, he also said "disappointment is the sole purpose of expectations".

Another nugget of wisdom.

[Mark Roberts]

Wonderful article by Roger Cicala. But I think you missed out on the best quotation: "disappointment is the sole purpose of expectations"

[KeithB]

My new Sig!

[Jim Arthur]

Due to the xkcd comic on dark matter, we now have a “Dark Squirrel” theory that says to detect dark matter we just need to build a bird feeder that spins two squirrels around the rim in opposite directions at relativistic speeds and collides them together. I’m thinking “Dark Squirrel” theory accounts for 90% of the rest of the mass Roger mentions. This still leaves room for T.O.P. and Lensrentals.

Luckily, Calvin and Hobbes are working on a better name for dark matter.