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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 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 Fermilab upward curving walls "cathedral" of science

• p107 David Hertzog

• p111 temperature fluctuations < 1℃

• p113 muon precession calculated from decay positron energies

• p115 160kV kicker

• p117 unblinding

• p119 measured discrepancy with standard model grew to 4.2 sigma, 1/40,000

• p121 BMW Budapest Marseilles Wuppertal Collaboration muon g-2 experiment, next results 2025

• p126 lattice quantum chromodynamics

• p126 Christine Davies University of Glasgow

• p128 >1e9 neutrinos per atom

• p130 Fermilab / Los Alamos "neutrinos where they have no right to be?

• p132 1966? Davis/Bahcall neutrino detector

• p134 neutrinos turn chlorine into argon, 1/3 of expected detections

• p136 KamiokaNDE experiment

• p137 neutrino -> electron moving faster than water speed of light, Cherenkov radiation

• p137 SAGE Soviet–American Gallium Experiment GALLEX

• p140 Super-Kamiokande

• p141 neutrino oscillation

• p143 Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

• p145 Fermilab MiniBooNE photo

• p146 Los Alamos Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND)

• p147 Sterile neutrino

• p150 Bonnie Fleming at Yale liquid argon detector

• p152 MicroBooNE

• p157 dark photon

• p158 Short Baseline Near Detector (SBNT)

• p158 Joachim Kopp

• p160 Ferney-Voltaire

• p161 Large Hadron Collider LHCb (beauty) experiment

• p164 Sophie Renner

• p166 bottom / beauty / b quark picosecond lifetime

• p169 W boson

• p172 Lepton flavor universality

• p173 violated by muon decay 75% of electron decay
• p175 2018 LHC 3 year shutdown, beams deflected into hundreds of tons of carbon
  • "... as they reeled from a blow with the power of 500 million stampeding horses." What does that mean?
  • est. energy 6.5e12 eV * 1.6e-19 J/eV * 1e11 protons/bunch * 4000 bunches * 2 (both directions) ≈ 800MJ

  • "500 million stampeding horses" -> 1.6J per stampeding horse

  • "power of ... " the 27 km circumference has a "drain time" of 90 microseconds, hence 800MJ/9e-5s = 9e12W for 90us

  • 5e8 "horsepower" * 736W/horsepower -> 3.7e11W = 4.1% of 9e12 Watts. If the drain time is 25 laps of the ring, then maybe

• p176-183 R RK experiments

• p184 Gino Isidore theoretical physicist at University of Zurich

  • statistics wander above/below 3 sigma "evidence" barrier, never higher

• p189 [[ https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/eluned-smith/ | Eluned Smith at MIT

• p200 more yes/no/yes/no ...

• p202 2022/12/20 Renato Quagliani announces ... after misunderstood background corrected, RK and RJ* agreed with standard model

• p209 SH0ES Supernova H0 for the Equation of State SH0ES? to measure Hubble constant, crosscheck on Cepheid estimates

• p217 ... every equation added to a popular science book halves its sales

• p221 Thomas Henderson 1833 parallax

• p221 Henrietta Swan Levitt Cepheids

• p223 Vesto Slipher

• p224 1931 Hubble and Milton L. Humason measure redshifts of nebula

• p225 Wendy Freedman HST Key Project

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