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Denyse O'Leary
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February 22, 2022
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At Mind Matters News: Theoretical physicist: Quantum theory must be replaced

Denyse O'Leary
February 22, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sabine Hossenfelder can live with the neutrinos that are inconsistent with the Standard Model of physics but quantum uncertainties are beyond the pale. We might conclude that the universe is a stranger place than we have sometimes been led to suspect and that the amount and type of strangeness each of us can tolerate depends, to some extent, on prior commitments. But it is what it is anyway. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 21, 2022
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At Mind Matters News: A physicist defends imperfection in our universe: It’s essential

Denyse O'Leary
February 21, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Great physicist Paul Dirac discovered antimatter by assuming symmetry (a quality of perfection). But in the details, the wheels came off. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 21, 2022
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At Mind Matters News: Some elements of our universe do not make scientific sense

Denyse O'Leary
February 21, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
The usually commonsensical Sabine Hossenfelder admits that this one stumps physicists: Well-attested observations of neutrinos are not compatible with the Standard Model of our universe that most physicists accept. Much about neutrinos is weird and it does not appear to be an artifact of bungled experiments. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2022
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What Sabine Hossenfelder hopes the James Webb telescope will do

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Hossenfelder: What you can see from this graph is that if this theory is correct there basically shouldn’t be any large galaxies at very early times... If the Webb telescope sees large galaxies anyhow, then that’s going to be very difficult to explain with dark matter. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 23, 2022
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String theory again: Will a correction to Einstein save it?

Denyse O'Leary
January 23, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
At times, the advocacy for string theory begins to sound a bit like a religion. But, in an important sense, it IS a religion. They’re trying to make sense of the universe and eventually, that shades into metaphysics. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 25, 2021
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Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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At National Geographic: A million to one odds that the universe’s expansion mystery is a statistical fluke

Denyse O'Leary
December 25, 2021
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
At NG: In other words, it’s looking even more likely that there’s some fundamental ingredient of the cosmos—or some unexpected effect of the known ingredients—that astronomers have yet to pin down. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 14, 2021
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Major cosmological principle — the universe is the same in all directions — is under fire

Denyse O'Leary
December 14, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
At Quanta: “The consensus now is that it is a small effect that does not, in the end, cause too much trouble,” Nadathur said. But that 2% could yet prove consequential. Durrer is investigating whether backreaction might help resolve a growing cosmological crisis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 12, 2021
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Cosmology, Logic and Reason, Physics

At Mind Matters News: How can the universe have arisen from nothing?

Denyse O'Leary
December 12, 2021
Cosmology, Logic and Reason, Physics
Louise runs through a number of ideas that sound popular in the lunchroom but don’t stand the test of careful thought. Just for example, “one day science will answer the question of why the universe exists.” But that’s not what science does. Generally speaking, science answers “how” questions, not “why” questions. Read More ›