A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian</a> university is embarking on a project to fundamentally alter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/physics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physics</a> as a science by &#8220;decolonizing light.&#8221;
A group of researchers across disciplines from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, is working on the project, which seeks to change the way the science of physics is perceived as an academic discipline, according to a report from <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholars-work-at-decolonizing-light-to-combat-colonialism-in-contemporary-physics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>. The project took aim at light specifically because it is ubiquitous across cultures and used in a number of scientific fields.
&#8220;The Decolonizing Light project explores ways and approaches to decolonize science, such as revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledges, and capacity building,&#8221; the <a href="https://decolonizinglight.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for the project states. &#8220;The project aims to developing a culture of critical reflection and investigation of the relation of science and colonialism.&#8221;
Established in 2021, the project is led by <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/tanja-tajmel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tanja Tajmel</a>, a special equity, diversity, and inclusion advisor to the dean of Concordia University and an Associate Professor at the university&#8217;s Centre for Engineering in Society. Also leading the project are Associate Professor of &#8220;First Peoples Studies,&#8221; <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/louellyn-white.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louellyn White</a>, and Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry and Biochemistry, <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/physics/faculty.html?fpid=ingo-salzmann" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ingo Salzmann</a>.
The project boasts a roster of 15 collaborators, including: Concordia &#8220;Indigenous pedagogy adviser&#8221; <a href="https://explore.concordia.ca/index.php/donna-kaherakwas-goodleaf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf</a>; environmental researcher and chemistry researcher Gregor Kos; three representatives from the Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office (KEPO), an indigenous environmental advocacy group; University of Toronto astronomer and indigenous activist Hilding Neilson; and 9 graduate and undergraduate workers. The project also features collaboration from five researchers at major universities around the world.
The project also has the financial backing of the <a href="https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/about-au_sujet-eng.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Frontiers in Research Fund</a>. The NFRE is a research fund established by the Canadian government in 2018 to support &#8220;interdisciplinary, high-risk/high-reward, transformative research led by Canadian researchers working with Canadian and international partners.&#8221;
&#8220;This fund seeks to inspire innovative research projects that push boundaries into exciting new areas and that have the potential to deliver game-changing impacts,&#8221; the NFRE website states.
In a <a href="https://pic-pac.cap.ca/index.php/Issues/showpdf/article/v77n1.0-a4130.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 paper</a> outlining the project, Salzmann, White, Goodleaf, and Tajmel said that the &#8220;unique scientific authority&#8221; of physics was the reason they targeted it. &#8220;Physics is commonly regarded as the &#8216;most objective&#8217; and the &#8216;hardest’ science, it fundamentally defines scientific key concepts such as energy, matter, force, light, space and time, for all the other sciences,&#8221; the professors wrote. &#8220;For our purpose, it is important to understand physics as a social field rather than as &#8216;pure knowledge&#8217; independent from social values and decisions.&#8221;
The professors chose light specifically &#8220;because light is ubiquitous in every society, language and culture. In everyday life, light is a key element that defines familiar aspects like color and warmth. In physics, light is exploited as the primary carrier of information about nature (e.g., in astronomy), used as the primary probe for the fundamental properties of matter (e.g., in spectroscopy),&#8221; and researched at major facilities like the Canadian Light Source in Saskatchewan, the professors added.
&#8220;The purpose of our project is not to find new or better explanations of light; we are not seeking to improve scientific 
‘truth,’” they continued. &#8220;Rather, our project initiatives are motivated by the marginalization of women, Black people, and Indigenous peoples, particularly in physics. We regard marginalization as a key problem for social equity as well as for scientific quality. Furthermore, we regard scientific knowledge that reproduces bias and colonial power relations as non-acceptable.&#8221;
The project is still active. According to their website, the last event was &#8220;An Evening of Indigenous Star Stories with Cree Astronomer Wilfred Buck,&#8221; on October 26.

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A prominent theoretical physicist faced severe backlash after sharing a widely-debunked representation of biological sex as a &#8220;spectrum.&#8221;
Sean M. Carroll, who specializes in quantum mechanics and teaches philosophy at John Hopkins University, <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1592168158865281025?s=20&amp;t=ubAc_KGXKURwxxTe_fkrgQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> on Sunday his dissension with an <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not-a-spectrum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evolutionary biologist&#8217;s</a> statement of biological sex being &#8220;real, immutable, and binary.&#8221; Caroll, invoking &#8220;actual science,&#8221; as he called it, shared an infographic from the 2017 Scientific American <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/visualizing-sex-as-a-spectrum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, &#8220;Visualizing Sex as a Spectrum.&#8221; The deluge of critical responses to his ill-fated tweet caused Carroll to turn off comments.
“‘Actual science&#8217; done by biologists shows 2 sexes, one with small mobile gametes and the other with large, immobile ones,&#8221; said renowned evolutionary biologist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/renowned-biologist-rebukes-inclusive-biology-instruction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerry Coyne</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/Evolutionistrue/status/1592224185832837121?s=20&amp;t=MKyOvpJBZupSmf56VRyrQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response</a>. &#8220;There is no third sex. Disorders of sex development are not new sexes, and biological sex is binary. Let&#8217;s not conflate sex, gender &amp; developmental anomalies.&#8221;
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&quot;Actual science&quot; done by biologists shows 2 sexes, one with small mobile gametes and the other with large, immobile ones. There is no third sex. Disorders of sex development are not new sexes, and biological sex is binary. Let&#39;s not conflate sex, gender &amp; developmental anomalies. <a href="https://t.co/tANXZM5S0r">https://t.co/tANXZM5S0r</a>
&mdash; Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) <a href="https://twitter.com/Evolutionistrue/status/1592224185832837121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The infographic, commonly touted by trans activists as a refutation to the longstanding binary model of sex, relies on the existence of intersex conditions to argue that biological sex is best visualized as a &#8220;spectrum.&#8221; This infographic depicts a small number of discrete disorders of sexual development (DSD), or &#8220;intersex conditions,&#8221; arbitrarily placed between female and male.
&#8220;This chart is a futile attempt to pretend sex is a spectrum by taking a handful of DSDs and lining them up in a nonsensical order that in no way reveals a spectrum,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1371893788784914434?s=20&amp;t=MKyOvpJBZupSmf56VRyrQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> developmental biologist Emma Hilton.
Intersex conditions are genetic abnormalities resulting in sexually ambiguous genitalia that affect about <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">0.018%</a> of the population. The existence of these developmental sex differences does not negate that sex is a binary system comprised of males and females.
Some of the intersex conditions were &#8220;irrationally&#8221; placed further apart with arrows extending across the graphic and crossing each other to &#8220;generate the illusion of complexity,&#8221; <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1592213002530525186.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Hilton.
Intersex conditions have absolutely no bearing on gender self-identification, and people with DSD have even <a href="https://differently-normal.com/2021/10/25/the-invention-of-intersex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> that their condition not be &#8220;appropriated&#8221; for the purpose of transgender activism. Despite this, intersex conditions are often touted by activists to claim that sex is a spectrum, and their numbers are frequently incorrectly <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/intersex-is-not-as-common-as-red" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflated</a> to 1.7%, or &#8220;as common as red hair.&#8221;
&#8220;Humans are a species with precisely two sexes, no more and no less,&#8221; <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-origins-of-two-sexes">said</a> Zach Elliott, a science educator who specialized in sex differences. &#8220;This means that there are exactly two distinct reproductive roles—referred to as male and female—centered around the production of two gametes of differing size (a form of sexual reproduction known as anisogamy).&#8221;
Evolutionary biologist Heather Heying <a href="https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1592561640377323520?s=20&amp;t=auFJAI5RXu7Aak0aPiF3YA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chimed in</a> on Tuesday to reiterate that sex, indeed, is a binary system.
Scientific American, the publication that produced the sex spectrum graphic, was a once respected popular science magazine that veered off into a leftist tabloid in recent years. Michael Shermer, who had a &#8220;Skeptic&#8221; column at Scientific American for 18 years, <a href="https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-american-goes-woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">details</a> the magazine&#8217;s long-running departure from science and reason, beginning in about 2019.
&#8220;The interchange between Michael and his editors gives us some insight into the termites chewing into the edifice of Scientific American,&#8221; Coyne wrote on his <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/11/18/michael-shermer-documents-the-decline-and-fall-of-scientific-american/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, Why Evolution is True. &#8220;My prediction is that unless the editors go back to its original format and lay off the propagandizing, the magazine will fold. After all, you can read about social justice and wokeness nearly everywhere, including Teen Vogue, but Scientific American was once unique.&#8221;
Steven Novella, a popular science blogger, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/debunks-popular-science-blogs-bimodal-portrayal-of-sex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> an equally unscientific model of &#8220;bimodal&#8221; sex in July, despite the fact that no peer-reviewed biology papers have ever claimed that sex is best described as bimodal, nor has any biologist ever been able to articulate the traits and measurements used to create the bimodal sex spectrum. In Novella&#8217;s <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-biological-sex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, he surreptitiously cites studies of crustaceans and mice to explain sexual differences, without properly informing the reader that he isn’t speaking about human biology or development.

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<a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Europe</a> is about to fire up the giant atom smasher that helped scientists discover the so-called “God particle,” prompting wacky internet fears it could create a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">black hole</a> that swallows the world or open a portal to Hell.
The Large Hadron Collider, in a giant physics lab near <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/switzerland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Geneva</a>, has been dormant for the last three years. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, intends to restart the particle accelerator this week in a search for anti-matter and answers to more of the universe’s most vexing mysteries.
“CERN will restart their large Hadron Collider next week, July 5th,” <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/patriotmimzy/status/1542601826733887489?s=20&amp;t=2V0YkiMTz-tMv8p30MwzeA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Patriot Mimzy</a>. “They are messing with things that don’t need to be messed with.”
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CERN will restart their large Hadron Collider next week, July 5th. They are messing with things that don&#39;t need to be messed with.
&mdash; 🇺🇸ULTRA MAGA PATRIOT KAYSI🇺🇸 (@patriotmimzy) <a href="https://twitter.com/patriotmimzy/status/1542601826733887489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“They’re trying to recreate the Big Bang &amp; open a portal to another dimension at CERN with the Large Hadron Collider,” <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/AndreasYilma/status/1541999751381790720?s=20&amp;t=2V0YkiMTz-tMv8p30MwzeA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote Twitter user Andreas</a>.
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They&#39;re trying to recreate the Big Bang &amp; open a portal to another dimension at CERN with the Large Hadron Collider, largest &amp; most powerful particle accelerator. There&#39;s a statue of Shiva, a Hindu God, also known as the destroyer outside. It&#39;s being turned back on July 5 😧
&mdash; Andreas (@AndreasYilma) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreasYilma/status/1541999751381790720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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All those people worried about Satan, 666 etc, I&#39;d just like to point out that CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider (that can theoretically create a black hole) has a statue of Lord Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, at the entrance.
I&#39;m sure it&#39;s nothing, though. <a href="https://t.co/gRmG2rOtrq">pic.twitter.com/gRmG2rOtrq</a>
&mdash; ꒻ꋬꌦ ꒦ꋬꆰ꒤ꏂꋪꄲ (@Jay_Apocalyptic) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jay_Apocalyptic/status/1540817189154033666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The enormous, 17-mile-long tube-like underground machine is built to conduct quantum experiments that could help explain how the Big Bang occurred. It works by colliding subatomic particles at near light speed, then recording what happens in the aftermath. In 2012, CERN scientists finally observed the long-theorized Higgs boson, or so-called “God particle.”
In the simplest terms, the Higgs boson is the particle associated with the Higgs field, an energy field that gives mass to elements that pass through it. When the collider smashes beams of protons at each other, the collisions create subatomic particles. The discovery of the “God particle” was the last piece of the modern physics puzzle and helped scientists understand how about a dozen subatomic particles smashing together during the Big Bang generated the mass we now see in the universe.
But many more questions remain unanswered for the CERN physicists, including why matter so vastly outnumbers anti-matter, why gravity exists, and what comprises vast parts of the universe that cannot be seen. If the Large Hadron Collider can help solve those mysteries, scientists believe, it may help us determine if other dimensions exist.
“One way of seeing evidence for other dimensions involves gravity &#8211; specifically, the theoretical particle associated with the gravity called the graviton,” reported <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/searching-upside-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Energy</a>. “And if we can create gravitons at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, we might be able to see evidence of them leaving our dimensions for other ones.”
To mark the 10-year anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, CERN will conduct collisions at unprecedented energy levels inside the collider. Events will be streamed live on CERN’s social media channels.
CERN made its way into American pop culture in 2016 when it was part of a plot in the hit Netflix show “Stranger Things.” In the show’s first season, a super collider helped reveal another dimension known as the “upside down world.” And according to the Department of Energy, some of the science behind the plot was not as far-fetched as one might think.
“Actually, there is real, hard science behind the idea of extra dimensions, and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science is involved in studying this very thing, in both theory and experiment,” <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/searching-upside-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the DOE stated in 2017</a>. “It turns out the ideas presented in the ‘Stranger Things’ episode ‘The Flea and the Acrobat’ are pretty much spot on.”

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After twenty years, confirmation of research done in 2001 has been found that a tiny subatomic particle may be defying the best theory scientists have of how physics work, titled the Standard Model.
At the Department of Energy’s Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, scientists sent a beam of muons into a huge 50-foot-wide storage ring controlled by superconducting magnets. Muons are roughly 200 times bigger than electrons and occur when cosmic rays strike Earth’s atmosphere.
Muons seem to have an internal magnet which wobbles, also known as “precesses,” like the axis of a top that spins. The rate of the precessing is determined by how strong the seeming internal magnet is. The muons circulating within the storage ring contact a quantum foam of subatomic particles that appear and disappear, thus slowing down or speeding up. That is called the “magnetic moment,” which is “represented in equations by a factor called g,” as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/science/particle-physics-muon-fermilab-brookhaven.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes">The New York Times</a> explained.
The Standard Model should be able to predict the “magnetic moment” with precision, but if additional forces or particles lie within the quantum foam that the Standard Model cannot explain, the muon’s g-factor would be affected.
“The predecessor experiment at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, which concluded in 2001, offered hints that the muon’s behavior disagreed with the Standard Model. The new measurement from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab strongly agrees with the value found at Brookhaven and diverges from theory with the most precise measurement to date,” <a href="https://news.fnal.gov/2021/04/first-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-experiment-strengthen-evidence-of-new-physics/">Fermilab</a> stated.
In 2006, the <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.072003">final result</a> of the 2001 research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory was announced, and there was a discrepancy with the Standard Model’s prediction. As Jennifer Ouellette of Ars Technica explained:
<blockquote>The muon&#8217;s measured magnet moment came in at a smaller value. Even more intriguing, that result was deemed a 3.7-sigma effect. (A signal’s strength <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/dark-matter-search-converges-on-narrow-energy-range-20130718/">is determined</a> by the number of standard statistical deviations, or sigmas, from the expected background in the data, producing a telltale &#8220;bump.&#8221; This metric is often compared to a coin landing on heads several tosses in a row. A three-sigma result is a strong hint. The gold standard for claiming discovery is a <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/17/five-sigmawhats-that/">five-sigma result</a>, comparable to tossing 21 heads in a row, for example.)</blockquote>
She continued: “That said, three-sigma results, while tantalizing, pop up all the time in particle physics, and more often than not, they disappear once more data is added to the mix. So Fermilab revived the Muon g-2 experiment in hopes of either confirming or refuting the discrepancy once and for all.”
The latest results closely matched the results from Brookhaven: “Taken together, they boost the statistical significance to 4.2 sigma—teetering just on the verge of the threshold required for discovery,” Ouelette noted, adding, “That means there is only a 1 in 40,000 chance that this is due to a statistical fluctuation.”
Chris Polly, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory who was a graduate student at Brookhaven and has been studying the issue for decades, stated, “This is our Mars rover landing moment. … After the 20 years that have passed since the Brookhaven experiment ended, it is so gratifying to finally be resolving this mystery.” He added, “So far we have analyzed less than 6% of the data that the experiment will eventually collect. Although these first results are telling us that there is an intriguing difference with the Standard Model, we will learn much more in the next couple of years.”
Renee Fatemi, a physicist at the University of Kentucky, echoed, “This is strong evidence that the muon is sensitive to something that is not in our best theory.”
Polly noted a graph showing white space where the latest results differed from the Standard Model, then said, “We can say with fairly high confidence there must be something contributing to this white space. What monsters might be lurking there?”

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