Recent content by Davephaelon

What an awesome cat! He reminds me of another youtube cat in Australia that rides in the front handlebar basket on a bicycle, jumping off occasionally to walk on a fence railing, and smoothly returning to the bike. I'll have to search for that on youtube.

Here's a list of what I looked up: https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/7c1d70d2bc77137e7f0c57c8b861e500/download_pub https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20188 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022EPJP..137..180D/abstract http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.astronomy.20221101.02.html...

In post #13 I brought up the two major competing approaches in Dark Matter (DM) research: the particle approach and modified gravity, mostly MOND. About that time I became aware of another theoretical approach to explain DM that utilizes Ricci solitons. Now, I knew about the Ricci tensor and...

Good point. I have noticed that many anomalies have been resolved over the years. But two puzzles have stood the test of time - neutrino mass deduced from their oscillations and the composition of Dark Matter (DM). Two competing approaches have dominated DM research - modified gravity...

One puzzle, possibly indicative of BTSM physics, that I was hoping would be mentioned in this thread, is the neutron decay anomaly. In arXiv:1801.01124v3 [hep-ph] 9 May 2018, the authors speculate that the 8 second difference in decay times for 'bottle' and 'beam' experiments, measuring the...

An Oldie but Goldie favorite, Jimmy Jones: Good Timin'

I've been a fan of Enya since forever. But when Don Pelletier's Enya remixes came out I was electrified. Orinoco Flow 2020 - Enya - (Trance Remix) is a particularly favorite remix. I wondered where this event took place, assuming it was someplace in Europe due to the display of many European...

Actually, his speculation is based on empirical data. For example the last paragraph on page 2 of the link to his pdf above states: "These were just the initial anomalies that made `Oumuamua different from all the comets and asteroids that we had seen before in the Solar system. As it tumbled...

Admittedly that is the public perception. But I like his boldness, tempered by a disciplined scientific approach. In many ways he reminds me of another astronomer - Dr. J. Allen Hynek - who served as the scientific consultant for Project Blue Book, on a subject unfortunately associated with...

According to the article below in Phys.org, an average of 7 Interstellar Objects (ISO's) pass through our solar system every year, and that we might be ready to intercept and examine one such as Oumuamua the next time such an object transits our neighborhood. Avi Loeb of Harvard even speculated...

This is a most interesting thread. I don't recall coming across the MacDowell-Mansouri geometric formulation before. I printed the thread out so that I can read it at my leisure while away from a desktop computer and to digest it more thoroughly.

I am greatly impressed by Deur's hypothesis, inasmuch as it conforms to Occam's Razor of minimal assumptions yielding maximum explanatory power. It's remarkable that with gravitational self-interaction alone one can resolve most of the puzzles that have confronted astrophysicists tracing back...

Oops, I see that I already made a query on the issue of explaining enhanced gravity from lensing data beyond the outer boundaries of both galaxies and galaxy clusters, in Deur's SI paradigm, on the thread titled "Do gravitons interact with gravitons". Scanning the responses over there, I see...

When I first came across Deur's work based on self-interacting gravitons, in analogy with QCD, I was astounded by its elegant simplicity in explaining, for example, the excess orbital velocities of galaxies within a galaxy cluster. Here he invokes flux tubes to account for the additional...

Thank you Jim McNamara, Vanhees71, and, Fra, for the responses. I'll check our local library for that book authored by J. J. Sakurai and S. Tuan. If it's not too expensive I'll purchase it.