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Space Oddities

The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

Harry Cliff 2024 Beaverton Lib 523.1 CLI

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• p05 H0LiCOW measuring universe rate of expansion Hubble's law

• p09 Crisis in Physics

• p12 Cosmic inflation

• p17 Standard model

• p19 Quantum fields

• p20 "electron bar magnet .00115965218059" = 1-μB Electron magnetic moment

  • "calculable to one part per trillion, best prediction anywhere in science"

• p23 dark matter dark energy

• p29 Urbain Le Verrier explained precession of Mercury with hypothetical planet Vulcan

• p35 Einstein uses general relativity to calculate perihelion precession of Mercury, 43 seconds of arc per century

• p40 Willis Lamb shift

• p40 Shelter Island Conference 1947

• p45 BICEP2 mistake

• p46 ATLAS/CMS 750 GeV diphoton excess

• p48 ... it was the theoretical physicists, the overexcitable little dears ... jump on any bump ...

• p50 many possible physics results, so gold standard for discovery is 5 sigma, 1 in 1.7 million

• p53 DAMA/LIBRA dark matter detection

• p55 OPERA superluminal neutrino error

• p60 ANITA Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna

  • Radio antennas suspended below balloon at 37km altitude over McMurdo Station, Antarctica

• p66 Linda Cremonesi Nine Lessons youtube interesting search mistake

• p68 ANITA no neutrino detection, instead cosmic ray air showers, one UPWARDS

• p71 Williams Field

• p71 Ivan the Terra-Bus

• p72 McMurdo Station

  • Anita II balloon sports stadium size

• p79 hypothetical sterile neutrino beyond standard model

• p81 Ice Cube neutrino detector

• p81 UK Daily Star tabloid "NASA Scientists Detect Parallel Universe 'Next to Ours' Where Time Runs Backwards"
  • p82 Three glaring untruths in 12 words
• p85 theorist "interesting new ideas" dismissed by experimentalists as "ambulance chasing"

• p86 ANITA successor [[ https://pueo.space/ | Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations PUEO ] 10x more sensitive

• p87 Chris Polly

• p89 Muon g − 2 giant superconducting coil

• p95 physicist Robert Retherford

• p98 Feynman diagram

• p102 infinite complicated Feynman diagrams, simpler diagrams higher probability
• p103 "currently 13643 diagrams calculated, not including weak/strong/quark forces
• p104 uncertainty 1.3e-13

• p105 Chris Polly

• p105 Fermilab upward curving walls "cathedral" of science

• p121 BMW Budapest Marseilles Wuppertal Collaboration

  • muon g-2 experiment, next results

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