The point, according to Professor Ofer Lahav, who's the lead investigator for the UK consortium involved in the Dark Energy Survey, is that the nature of all these phenomena is heavily influenced by the properties of dark energy.

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My position perhaps more clearly stated is that if all markets were clearing then phenomena such as: lack of educational improvement, globalization, de-industrialization, skew of technological improvement towards information technology, energy shortages, etc would show up in wages.

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They conjure up new assumptions and clever twists on old ones to prove that seemingly irrational phenomena are, after all, quite rational.

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Yeah, so you mean the thing that brought the new kind of nuclear phenomena back into the spotlight after the previous big fuss over that pair of dumb chemists who were all too hasty to announce they had found the perfect new energy source.

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Scientists studying such diverse phenomena as earthquakes, stockmarket crashes and forest fires have noticed, says Mr Buchanan, that their distributions all follow something called a power law.

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