Only if alpha were a smidgen smaller when the light passed through the gas cloud could such a pattern have been produced.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

Just as in a container, molecules in an inter-galactic gas cloud absorb certain wavelengths and leave a pattern of dark lines on a quasar's spectrum.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

They helped Microsoft win the desktop wars, and that developer-centric pattern is set to repeat in the cloud.

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Also important is that stocks are trading under the cloud of a ValuEngine Valuation Warning, which typically occurs when stocks are ready to for a topping pattern.

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