Dispatches From Turtle Island

N eff , the effective number of neutrino species in the lamda CDM Standard Model of cosmology, theoretically, should have a value of 3.046 i...

Merab Gogberashvili has written a number of papers showing how many of the physical constants of cosmology and particle physics flow natural...

Matt Strassler, rightly, takes a moment to breath and to acknowledge that using general relativity and the Standard Model to extrapolate fro...

Background For many practical purposes, e.g. aeronautical engineering applications and the dynamics of stars within a galaxy, Newton's...

The predicted width of the Standard Model Higgs Boson (another way of describing its mean lifetime - a small number implies a long lifetime,...

Five Reasons That We Know The Standard Model And General Relativity Aren't Complete 1. The Standard Model of particle physics is consi...

A new analysis combines all of the top quark mass measurement data from the CDF and D0 experiments at the now closed Tevatron collider and ...

A core concept of cosmology is "inflation" which has been a core feature of mainstream cosmology theory for three or four decades....

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, the second generation charged lepton, has generated enormous interest because the calculated valu...

A recent pre-print  by Stephen Lars Olsen of Seoul National University sums up a major unsolved problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the...