Dispatches From Turtle Island

  I would add at least a couple more.  There are false problems that ask "why doesn't the universe act like I think (for no good re...

From here .

Astrophysicists were playful this year. HEP physicists weren't feeling the love.  Since their domestication at the dawn of civilization,...

  From Questionable Content .

This paper is both novel and correct, but the novel part is not correct and the correct part is not novel. From a peer review of an academic...

From this physics preprint .

  A mirror universe scenario overcomes this meme.  Deur's approach  (whether or not it modifies general relativity) also solves the con...

For those of you who aren't  Young Earth Creationists  (as about 0.1% of scientists and 46% of American adults are) or  Flat Earthers  (...

String theory makes no predictions and has no observational support. It isn't really even really a theory so much as an approach to come...

 

It has long been accepted that the cosmos determine our personalities, relationships, and even our fate. Unlike our condensed matter colleag...

 

Some more April Fool's Day humor. Humans like to party, and New Year celebrations are a great way to do that. However New Years celebrat...

For much of February 2023, the world was in panic as repeated balloon-like unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were reported over numerous co...

This year's Valentine's Day poem from 4 gravitons : Married to a Model If you ever face a physics class distracted, Rappers and foot...

I am a dad, so I am allowed to tell dad jokes.

It looks like the tensions suggesting lepton universality violations in B meson decays (contrary to the Standard Model prediction) have disa...