This appears in a tech and science section of a major network: Could 2019 be the year humans open the first portal to a shadowy dimension which mirrors our own world?
Cosmology
A physicist is testing for a parallel universe – the mirrorverse
The NBC writer tells us that there will not be an evil Mr. Spock. But why not?
A science writer considers the cost of science functioning as an inquisition
Case in point, David Bohm. In reality, just about everything except non-materialism is forgiven, despite the history.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Don’t expect too much from new proposals to detect dark matter
She doesn’t so much oppose it as she doesn’t want to “wait another 40 years for physicists to realize that falsifiability alone is not sufficient to make a hypothesis promising.” In any event, those who remember science from fifty or thirty years ago find this state of affairs odd.
Cosmic cold spots now “even weirder”
Researching the distribution of light following the Big Bang shows no evidence of these anomalies. Either they are flukes of statistics or evidence of new physics, the researchers say.
Rob Sheldon: What that hot new quantum experiment really showed
His view: What this recent paper with a qutrit experiment shows, is that it is possible to do QM communication or QM computing at high volume and high speed. No need to wear headphones. Our view of the universe has not changed.
New Scientist has seen signs of a mirror universe touching our own
Broussard is about to do tests to find out if it is true. That’s fun, of course, but in reality, no one can prove it false and it will therefore always be real when cosmologists need it. It would be still more fun to see Sabine Hossenfelder tackle this one.
Astrophysicist: Nothingness” may be the answer to our cosmic questions; Rob Sheldon responds
Rob Sheldon: This article illustrates the reason why the scientific method is going extinct, not just in Darwin’s circular logic, but also in physics and cosmology.
In 1973, a computer said the world would end in 2040
Jonathan Bartlett offers some thoughts on a frantic, bizarre – but instructive – computer-driven prediction.
In this version of the multiverse, you are unique
But wait! There might be an infinity of multiverses in which you are not unique. This is the only one in which your head has not exploded.
Hope springs eternal: Are new particles hiding “in plain sight?”
The Large Hadron Collider just keeps confirming the Standard Model, almost as if there was some basis for believing it to be correct. Rob Sheldon thinks the current mood is desperation: If you don’t know where you are going, you will certainly arrive. Information is finite, ignorance infinite.
What does it mean to say, in physics, that something like the Higgs boson “exists”?
Sabine Hossenfelder’s view: Realism is a philosophy. It’s a belief system, and science does not tell you whether it is correct.
Universe a billion years younger! Scientists scrambling!! Oh, wait…
Rob Sheldon’s alternative headline for the same story: The expansion rate from Planck (68 km/s/Mpc) doesn’t match the expansion rate from Hubble Easy to account for. (There are enough real mysteries in the universe without this nonsense.)
Rob Sheldon offers a physics perspective on free will
Sheldon: My objection, which I will develop in two streams, is that both reductionism and emergence are just wrong, as is the philosophical denial of free will based on them.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Black holes vs. quantum mechanics = something has to give
Her view: Most physicists believe that the solution is that the Hawking radiation somehow must contain information after all.