Alexander Franklin Mayer, the Jay Pritzker Fellow in Theoretical Physics, has come up with a theory that threatens to overturn the conventional wisdom of modern physics. One might suggest that repeated self-congratulations, denigration of others, and gratuitous use of quotations are ultimately irrelevant, but he knows how to weave a good scientific tale.
Mayer has developed [...]

The anthropic principle is the idea that the laws of physics are tuned precisely to allow complex life like ourselves emerge and so ponder the nature of the universe. It’s a principle dragged out again and again, particularly by the ID brigade, to suggest that there is a god running the show.
Of course, many scientists [...]

The model is the result of a deductive analysis of what necessarily follows given one hypothetical premise: the notion of gravitational repulsion. From that one premise the repercussions that follow through formal deduction both predict and give reason to a Universe as it is observed today. Even some previously vexing “anomalous” phenomena (e.g., the supermassive [...]

Why Einstein was right, when he was, in his “Relativity” theorizing, was often because hidden facets of mathematics and of the definitions used in physics allowed the ideas to be usable, even if his reasoning were fallacious. In other words, often, he was lucky.

Einstein’s Special Relativity, which title for it, I am told, he disliked, [...]