Webb Telescope Delights the Public
July 14, 2022
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope have been unveiled. With them came a host of speculations about discoveries to come.
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Will Dark Matter Theorists See the Light?
July 13, 2022
Some cosmologists are seriously considering dark matter theory to be a blunder.
The Gravity of the Situation Confounds Physicists
May 31, 2022
The mystery of gravity deepens: how does gravity act over vast distances?
Cosmologists Reverse Their Dogmas
May 23, 2022
Oops! The Previous Astronomical Conclusions May Be Wrong: The universe’s expansion may not continue forever, but “could stop expanding ‘remarkably soon’.” by Jerry Bergman, PhD According to an article in Live Science, the “oscillating universe” might be coming back in vogue.[1] A paper in PNAS by Paul Steinhardt, Director of the Princeton Center for […]
How to Become an Expert in Ignorance
April 14, 2022
She's proud of all the things she doesn't know and can't figure out. This points to serious problems in our education system.
Stars Burst Into Existence
April 7, 2022
It's like a Cambrian explosion for cosmology: there were more "starburst" galaxies than models predict.
Hubble’s Camera Celebrates 20 Years
March 8, 2022
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope has dramatically changed cosmology.
Cosmic Disturbances Shake Astronomer Confidence
February 16, 2022
When theory and observation don't match, there is a loss in consumer confidence in science.
Antimatter Problem Still Defies Natural Explanation
January 7, 2022
The latest test of matter and antimatter shows that they both respond identically to gravity.
Will the new Space Telescope See the Origin of Life?
January 4, 2022
Spending Another $10 Billion to Prove Atheism: Another Proposal to get Life from Non-life by Jerry Bergman, PhD Atheism might have had its defenders long before Darwin, but as Richard Dawkins has famously said, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”[1] Not quite. To be an intellectually fulfilled atheist, a viable […]
The James Webb Space Telescope Will Not Tell Us Where We Came From
December 16, 2021
As the long-awaited launch of JWST approaches, it's time to deflate some pompous predictions.
Earth Factories, Not Exploding Stars, May Form Elements
October 21, 2021
What textbooks have taught for decades may not be completely true.
SETI Is Built on the Myth of Evolutionary Progress
October 19, 2021
Does intelligent design evolve from slime? That is just one of the absurdities in the SETI movement.
Nobel Prize Spotlights Cosmic and Organic Asymmetries
October 12, 2021
Heads or tails have equal probabilities, so why does nature sometimes prefer one over the other?
Galactic Structure Gives Cosmologists Lumps
June 15, 2021
How many times have we been told that "new physics" are needed to explain the universe?