Cosmology in Perpetual Crisis
June 7, 2016
Secular cosmologists are no closer to the truth than they were 20 years ago. Cosmologists, like occult wizards, deal in dark secrets. Dark matter and dark energy are their stock...
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Cosmologists Need New Physics
April 14, 2016
...arrived at the oft-cited consensus age of the universe, 13.7 billion years. Given the long-standing puzzles over dark matter, dark energy, inflation, fine-tuning and the multiverse, Adam Riess, astrophysicist at...
Occult Cosmology Mutters Dark Matters
February 2, 2016
...“Bright sparks shed new light on the dark matter riddle,” the headline reads: “Highest sensitivity detector ever used for very light dark matter elementary particles.” The CaWO4 crystal may shed...
Cosmologists Bash Heads Against Reality
January 27, 2016
...of dark matter (PhysOrg). Spike Psarris suggests we not be too harsh on this proposal. “After all, the evidence for secondary inflation is just as good as the evidence for...
Dark Matter Is Lost in Space
December 19, 2015
...by launching Wukong (“Monkey King”), a dark matter orbiting observatory. The Chinese think dark matter will be detected by high-energy cosmic rays, but the Europeans aren’t so sure: “We don’t...
Science Will Never Know Some Things
December 12, 2015
Working against scientists’ ambitions are hurdles of reality. One should never say never in science; for instance, MIT scientists found a way to characterize a chemical state that was thought...
Major Scientific Revolutions Are Still Possible
November 24, 2015
...Sydney, Australia, have theoretically shown that dark matter can cause the fundamental constants of nature to slowly evolve as well as oscillate due to oscillations in the dark matter field....
Inventing Stars, Solar Systems and Universes
October 31, 2015
...bring dark matter to light (PhysOrg) Dark matter universe (PNAS) Have physicists seen the dying flash of dark matter? (Science) X-ray signal from outer space points to dark matter (Science)...
Big Bang Antimatter Problem Deepens
August 13, 2015
...dark matter and dark energy are considered, it implies that modern physicists and cosmologists only have a handle on 2% of reality. Is this evidence for intelligent design? Look at...
Cosmic Conundrums
August 11, 2015
...Some astronomers are waving their hands to conjure up “decaying dark matter,” as if invoking another unknown helps. “You know it’s a crisis when you start seriously talking about decaying...
Astronomers Lie about Star Formation
June 20, 2015
...“fresh theories about dark matter” on May 15, and New Scientist recently got even more bizarre, proposing that dark matter may be composed of exotic “WIMPzillas from the dawn of...
Plentiful Water in the Early Universe, and Other Surprises
May 14, 2015
...unexpected. Dark matter: Here’s a vocabulary word to know in cosmology: “upend.” It means to tip over, invert, or falsify. Watch for it in this Nature article; it’s “unorthodox.” After...
Evidence-Based Cosmology
March 27, 2015
...the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers looked for dark matter interactions in two colliding galaxy clusters but found none. The results show that “dark matter interacts with...
Double Trouble for Cosmology
January 24, 2015
...secular astronomers and astrobiologists. Out of the black: As if that were not enough, another admission came out of Nature this week: it’s crunch time for dark matter. All the...
Astronomers Missed Half the Visible Universe
November 10, 2014
...Can a star be older than the universe? Explaining a “Methuselah star” requires tweaks to dark matter and dark energy theories, but “Dark energy and dark matter are, as have...