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New Scientist: Dark matter’s no-show casts doubt on Big Bang; Rob Sheldon replies

Sheldon: The recent publication of the Italians+Silk paper has now voiced the unspeakable: there is something wrong with the Lambda-CDM Big Bang model, and by inference, the 2011 Nobel Prize. Neither "dark matter" nor "dark energy" seem to exist in a form that makes the model work. Read More ›

Sabine Hossenfelder on the future of particle physics

Hossenfelder: The standard model works just fine with that number and it fits the data. But a small number like this, without explanation, is ugly and particle physicists didn’t want to believe nature could be that ugly. Read More ›

Yes, the Big Bang could be wrong, but what would that really mean?

Actually, multiverse cosmology would make a starting point irrelevant or else subject to endless redefinition. Powell’s bookmark-able summary can’t address the problem, of course, but that’s precisely what the multiverse does. Facts no longer matter much because contradictory facts have equal status. Read More ›

Rob Sheldon: The real reason there is a crisis in cosmology

Nearly everything that has failed about the Big Bang model has been added because of bad metaphysics, a refusal to accept the consequences of a beginning. The remaining pieces of the Big Bang model that are failing and which can't be attributed to bad metaphysics, were added from sheer laziness. Read More ›

Researcher: Finding helium hydride today confirms its presence from within 100,000 years of the Big Bang

Compared to evidence-free claims about the multiverse, news about the filling in of the missing pieces of Big Bang cosmology attracts little attention. Could that be because, however well-attested, the Big Bang is unpopular among cosmologists? (Due, we are told, to its apparent theistic implications.) Read More ›