by Wanpeng Tan for understanding the mirror sector of the Universe
A series of pop-science articles on mirror matter theory (i.e., 镜像世界探秘系列) written since 2020 are translated from Chinese to English using Gemini 3.5 flash. Exploring the Mirror World 0—Introduction Exploring the Mirror World 1—The Romance of Mirror Matter Theory Exploring the Mirror World 2—The Mystery of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis Exploring the Mirror World 3—Constructing … Continue…
My biggest effort over the past few years has finally come to some preliminary fruition, I am happy to see it come to life: a development github site and a phase-1 MVP deployment at openarxiv.org on building a novel Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem (CORE). Here is the README.md file: CORE: Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem … Continue reading "Academic Reform: building a…
Superconductors are incredible materials that can conduct electricity with absolutely zero energy loss. While traditional superconductors only work at extreme, deep-freeze temperatures, scientists have discovered “unconventional” superconductors that operate at much warmer temperatures. Understanding exactly how these unconventional materials work is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in modern…
Thomas Gold, a maverick physicist without a PhD, proposed many bold and contrarian ideas and theories across many disciplines throughout his life. As the great physicist Freeman Dyson wrote in the foreword to Gold’s book The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels, “Gold’s theories are always original, always important, usually controversial — and … Continue reading "More about Thomas Gold’s…
I’d like to recommend everybody to read a fantastic article written by a famous scientific maverick Tommy Gold, “New Ideas in Science” [published in Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 103-112, 1989]. Gold has discussed two very deep-penetrating ideas. One is about the herd behavior in the scientific community, which is self-multiplying … Continue reading "Herd Behavior and…
My letter to Physics Today was just published in its issue in October, 2024. Hopefully, it’ll draw attention from a wider audience to the issues and a possible solution to these issues of peer review or evaluation systems in various research activities in STEM fields, including those in job applications, tenure review, refereed publications, and … Continue reading "A possible solution to arbitrary…
Based on the earlier paper “A Robust Community-Based Credit System to Enhance Peer Review in Scientific Research“, we will present more quantitative details of the full scheme of such an evaluation system — an Open ePrint and Rigorous Evaluation System for STEM (OePRESS) that is ready to be implemented. Abstract: In light of the failed … Continue reading "OePRESS: an Open ePrint and Rigorous…
My paper titled “New pairing mechanism via chiral electron–hole condensation for non-BCS superconductivity” has just been accepted for publication at J. Phys. Chem. Solids 193 (2024) 112148. Here are the highlights: A novel pairing mechanism for unconventional superconductivity. Natural explanations of antiferromagnetism and strong correlations. In agreement with experimental data from cuprate and…
The website of mirroruniverse.org dedicated for the studies of the new mirror matter theory and its test is now up and running. Content-wise, I still have a lot to do and I’ll slowly get it up to date. If you’d like to participate in forum discussion there or make other comments at the site, you … Continue reading "The new website MirrorUniverse.org is up and running" The post The new website…
Two websites are under construction: mirroruniverse.org and openarxiv.org. We need volunteers who are experienced in graphic and web design to join the team for building these two websites. Feel free to contact me at <wtan AT nd.edu> if you are interested or have further questions. The website of mirroruniverse.org will be a more formal web … Continue reading "Volunteers are needed for graphic and…