June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... cm/yr, which matches the 12-Sigma anomaly within 1/10 of a standard deviation. Statistically, the chances of this result being a coincidence... the epicycles of old. This crisis indicates that standard models of the universe, which assume a fixed speed...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
... lines of investigation. And since the primordial standard clocks would be a component of the "theory of everything," finding them would also provide evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model at an energy scale inaccessible to colliders on the...
26 April 2017
Cold Spot in CMB could be evidence for a multiverse
... Tom Shanks, who conducted the new survey along with postgraduate student Ruari Mackenzie. As simulations of the standard model of the Universe give odds of a 1 in 50 chance that the Cold Spot arose spontaneously, could it be signs that our...
09 January 2016
Second Annual Buchalter Cosmology Prize awarded
... to curve in on itself. From this, they worked out that any undiscovered particle associated with an extension to the Standard Model of particle physics would have to have a mass less than 35 TeV. Perimeter Institute is the world’s largest research...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... Centre for Astrophysics (CfA), suggest that the answer is apparently yes. Using a computer model known as the Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM), which is the standard model for Earth's interior, lead author Li Zeng and team adapted the...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
...-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the United Kingdom’s Defence Geographic Centre (DGC). The World Magnetic Model (WMM) is the standard model used by the the U.K. Ministry of Defence, the U.S. Department of Defense, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
