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Comment Re:for those wondering what the picture shows (Score 1) 44

Even scientists still need captions sometimes. Generally the audience for a paper is slightly wider than the set of people intimately familiar with your particular experimental techniques, and formatting and display conventions do vary between different people and different labs. That said, I know nothing of this field so maybe this set-up is standard enough that anyone professionally interested in it does recognize it on sight.

Comment Supersymmetry is not the same thing as dark matter (Score 2) 143

The summary isn't detailed enough to bring this up, but TFA tries to equate supersymmetry with dark matter, which is emphatically wrong. The existence of dark matter is strongly supported by astronomical evidence including galaxy rotation velocities and observations of gravitational lensing, regardless of the nature of the particles that make it up. Even if this result provides evidence against supersymmetry (which doesn't seem to be the conclusion of other articles I've read, although I'm not really qualified to say), it tells us absolutely nothing about dark matter.

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