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de Broglie's seminal paper was mostly speculative but got published

"There is of course one final observation to be made: in terms of the present politics of publishing scientific papers, de Broglie's contribution could never have been published because it only essentially contains speculations. However, one can just as well say that this paper proves that speculations are an essential part of physics; without them no new ideas and theories are born. Quantum mechanics has to be regarded as a true rupture in the history of physics, as a revolution in the philosophy of science – a revolution that desperately needed speculations and deviations beyond well-accepted ways of thinking. It pays off to come back occasionally to one of the famous papers in the Philosophical Magazine!" A quote from P. Weinberger: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500830600876565

A "mild" evidence for a cosmic axis

"In our analysis, we found mild evidence for a cosmic preferred axis. It is interesting to note that this preferred axis lies broadly in the vicinity of other prominent cosmic anisotropy axes reported in the literature from diverse data sets. Also we find some evidence for non-zero (negative) cosmic shear and eccentricity that characterize different expansion rates in different directions and deviation from an isotropic scale factor respectively." See the paper at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07661

Surprise, surprise: Dark matter might not exist at all

"Such a long range effect may indicate that dark matter—as we understand it—might not exist at all." https://phys.org/news/2024-06-mond-dark-rotation-galaxies-stay.html https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Evidence_Suggests_Dark_Matter_Influence_Extends_Further_Than_Thought_999.html