Cosmologists Challenge Standard Model as Cosmic Acceleration May Be Illusion

Cosmologists Challenge Standard Model as Cosmic Acceleration May Be Illusion

Cosmologists challenging the standard model of the universe report that the accelerating expansion of the cosmos may be an illusion caused by Earth’s position in a moving patch of space. Researchers from Oxford and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research argue that Type Ia supernovae data, corrected for stellar age, shows an asymmetric expansion pattern … Read more

Proton Size Mystery Solved Using Lasers

The New Era of Atomic Precision: What Lies Beyond the Proton Radius Puzzle? For years, the physics community was gripped by the “proton radius puzzle.” It was a discrepancy that threatened to shake the very foundations of the Standard Model—the mathematical framework that describes how the universe works at its most fundamental level. By finally … Read more