Watch out - he's publishing a model, not facts. In physics you are allowed to publish "random models," so to speak, on nothing other than the hope that at some point in the future someome will identify them as true or false.
There's a huge difference between a paper about a model being published, and the model being accepted as a true fact.
Agreed. Now what's more interesting is that his model is close enough to the one developed in a paper from 2008 by Sabine Hossenfelder [1]. Close enough to be accused of plagiarism when he reached out to her. We discussed this article 5 months ago: "'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe" [2]. Experiments are currently being setup to see how antimatter behaves in a free-fall situation [3]. The lead scientist says it will fall up, while Petit asserts it will fall down.
So it's not like this model is totally isolated from what is being done in physics, although he has developed it on his own. He's into bimetric models of gravity like many other people in his field, and as far as I can tell, this is Occam's bush growing we are seeing here. Let's not hasten to use the razzor.
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He has been publishing elements to this theory for the last 40 years.
See the bottom of this page: http://www.januscosmologicalmodel.com/.
Some of his latest papers have been published in Astrophysics and Space Science, Modern Physics Letters A & Progress in Physics [1]
[1] https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=JP+Pe...
Watch out - he's publishing a model, not facts. In physics you are allowed to publish "random models," so to speak, on nothing other than the hope that at some point in the future someome will identify them as true or false.
There's a huge difference between a paper about a model being published, and the model being accepted as a true fact.
Agreed. Now what's more interesting is that his model is close enough to the one developed in a paper from 2008 by Sabine Hossenfelder [1]. Close enough to be accused of plagiarism when he reached out to her. We discussed this article 5 months ago: "'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe" [2]. Experiments are currently being setup to see how antimatter behaves in a free-fall situation [3]. The lead scientist says it will fall up, while Petit asserts it will fall down.
So it's not like this model is totally isolated from what is being done in physics, although he has developed it on his own. He's into bimetric models of gravity like many other people in his field, and as far as I can tell, this is Occam's bush growing we are seeing here. Let's not hasten to use the razzor.
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/0807.2838.pdf [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609375 [3] https://cerncourier.com/does-antimatter-fall-up/