Physics and metaphysics
I love science. Honest, I do. You may read this and think I am poking fun at science and scientists, but honest… Okay, maybe a little? I have studied science. I can pass a test, because I have memorized the ‘correct’ answer sets. Passing a test doesn’t make me a scientist, for sure. I do have questions and I like to wonder, even straying into the ‘what ifs’ of life. I stray there, too often, but every episode of PBS’ SpaceTime, and Anton Petrov fill me with wonder and hope and fun. Like this new episode Anton posted, Sept 17th… He looks genuinely excited! I love his passion! Even the video title, “WHOA!”
What I find particularly fun, like amusingly fun, is how many steps scientist have to create to make their claim that they may have found evidence of a dark energy particle. For the last year, scientist have been trying to understand what they are seeing, and necessarily had to create a new model to interpret data. Their model fits their data. They bypass dark matter and jump straight to dark energy. To make this work, they need an inversion layer- inside the sun, the radiative zone and the tachocline, and a hypothetical particle called the Chameleon particle, converging to produce another particle that leaves the sun and hits a sensor from liquid Xenon…
