Editing 2113: Physics Suppression

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[[White Hat]] is mad at physicist in general and directs his furry at [[Megan]], a physicist. He has a theory, and blames the physicist for suppressing it, so no one takes it serious, because his theory would be disrupting standard models in physics. He blames the physicist to do this because his theory would be inconvenient because they would have to change their models.  

Megan is not taking him serious, but asks, as if he is correct, how she did not know about this physics Mafia. Because if they where there, to suppress annoying results, then why where they not there to stop the people who published results about Dark energy? Although she must admit that they (physicist) later gave them a {{w|Nobel Price}}, she's still mad at them for the "trouble" this new concept caused for other physicist, including her.

{{w|Dark energy}} is an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to accelerate the expansion of the universe. Even though "dark energy" is a direct consequence of {{w|Albert Einstein|Albert Einstein's}} "{{w|cosmological constant}}" in the field equations of {{w|general relativity}}, it's actual discovery was still seen as a surprise within the physics community. Even Einstein had great trouble accepting it, calling it his "greatest blunder"{{Citation needed}}. In the comic, Megan says that if scientists were able to suppress inconvenient ideas, dark energy would likely have been such a case.

 

She also indirectly says to White Hat, that if he actually had some results, not just a theory that contradicts known physics, then the results would not have been suppressed. The reason the "Dark energy people" got a noble prize, it that the experiments and measurements show that they were onto something real. Seems like White Hat only has a model, and not data to back it up. This is the real joke.

The title text mentions {{w|BICEP2}} (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) was part of a series of instruments used to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In 17 March 2014, it was announced to much fanfare that BICEP2 had detected B-modes from gravitational waves in the early universe (called primordial gravitational waves). A few years later this announcement had to be backtracked, as it was found that most if not all the reported signal was actually due to interstellar dust within the Milky Way.

The title text notes that if there had been a physics mafia, then those results would have ended in bloodshed, someone would have been killed. Now it may only be their career that ended...