Extragalactic planet This suspected planet is the first announced in the Andromeda Galaxy. A population of unbound planets between stars, with masses ranging from Lunar to Jovian masses, have been indirectly detected, for the first time, by astrophysicists from the University of Oklahoma, in the lensing galaxy that lenses quasar RX J1131-1231 by microlensing. Extragalactic planet An extragalactic planet, also known as an extragalactic exoplanet, is a star-bound planet, or rogue planet, located outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Due to the huge distances to such worlds, they would be very hard to detect directly. However, indirect evidence suggests that such planets
Beyond the Hoax Beyond the Hoax Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy, and Culture is a 2008 book by Alan Sokal detailing the history of the Sokal affair in which he submitted an article full of "nonsense". "The Times" writes that "Sokal's essays - and his hoax - achieve their purpose of reminding us all that, in the words of the Victorian mathematician-philosopher William Kingdon Clifford, 'It is wrong, always, everywhere and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. But it also notes that "Beyond the Hoax": fails to reflect the fact that Sokal's concerns are now widely shared - and that