Dispatches From Turtle Island

* I suspect that ultimately the speed of light is an average value, but at the ultimate quantum level, only an average value, and that devia...

We discuss the correlation between the dark matter content of elliptical galaxies and their ellipticities. We then explore a mechanism for w...

Summary Modern genetic techniques and assimilation of global historical accounts have revealed that the Black Plague that devastated Euro...

This excludes Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter, which lack solid surfaces, but includes Moons and minor planets.  It is remarkable how much of...

Two different ways of measuring two of the nine CKM matrix elements (the charm quark to bottom quark and the up quark to bottom quark elemen...

An ambitious new paper demonstrates in a brief ten pages how to generalize lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) (an approach to calculating...

Overview There is no experimental evidence for CPT symmetry violations to date. CPT symmetry widely believed to be a perfect symmetry, unl...

Earlier simulations comparing cold dark matter models (with dark matter particles that are thermal relics with masses on the order of 1-1,00...

Once again, the prospects of beyond the Standard Model physics at experimentally accessible scales is looking ever more bleak. Tevatron Mea...

The time period from around 900 CE to 1100 CE was an eventful one. Austronesian mariners had reached their greatest extent having establis...

Cosmic rays, a term that includes not just photons but also fast moving particles headed towards Earth, would kill us all were it not for th...

The News A  June 18, 2014  paper estimates that differences in electromagnetic field strength between the proton and neutron account for 1...

* In the simple Platonic ideal, a black hole is a singularity from which not even light can escape.  In other words, photons can't cross...