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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. Read More ›

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.) 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 ›

Rob Sheldon: Here’s why physicists are surprised by the universe’s increased expansion rate

The two methods differ in that one is "direct" and the other "indirect". Clearly one or both of them is making a mistake. Since it is hard to find (and people have looked) a reason why the direct method is failing, the feeling is that the indirect method must have a mistake in its model. Read More ›