Cosmology News

The existence of Dark Matter explains the anomaly in galaxy rotation curves (85%)

COVID-19 was natural in origin (80%).

The Lost Colony of Roanoke colonists have living decedents (55%)

The Mar Saba letter discovered by Morton Smith and containing excerpts from the "Secret Gospel of Mark" is a modern forgery (25%)

D.B. Cooper survived his parachute jump and escaped (30%)

The Hubble Tension can be resolved without new physics or changes to cosmological models (55%)

JonBenét Ramsey was killed by a member of her family (10%)

Lizzie Borden killed her parents (10%)

Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper (35%)

Current Cosmic Ladder estimates are wrong

Current Cosmic Microwave Background estimates are wrong

NO

YES

Deviations from the Cosmological Priniciple

Systematic errors in distance measurement techniques

Evolving dark energy with time-dependent properties

Relativistic backreaction / timescape cosmology (breakdown of global FLRW averaging)

Local cosmic void (KBC void) around the Milky Way

Measurement errors in CMB calibration

Early dark energy in the early universe

Warm dark matter

Interactions between dark matter and dark energy

New relativistic particles in early universe

Rotating universe model

Modified gravity theory (MOND/Milgromian dynamics)

Vacuum phase transition in early universe

Primordial magnetic fields

Primordial magnetic fields

Non-zero spatial curvature of the universe

Modified gravity (higher order models)

Quantum gravity modified dynamics

Quantum gravity effects on particles and fields

YES

Quantum Mechanics (includes Quantum Computing)

Astrophysics or Cosmology

Condensed Matter Physics

Optics or Photonics

Atomic or Molecular Physics

Geophysics, Climate or Atmospheric Physics

Biophysics

Fluid dynamics

Semiconductor Physics

Superconductivity

Thermodynamics

Systematic errors in stellar abundance observations

Varying fundamental constants

Stellar depletion (astrophysical solution)

Nuclear physics: Unknown/revised BBN reaction rates

Sterile neutrinos

Inhomogeneous cosmology

YES

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Other

New Physics - Late Universe

New Physics - Early Universe

Systematics - Clustering

Systematics - Lensing

Projection effects

YES