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Mattia Cesaro

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Physicists create a black hole bomb for the first time

Live Science
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The article is well written, explains clearly the superradiance and the Zel'dovich effect and is precise in specifying that the work has not been peer-reviewed yet. The references are also provided. However, the title is too sensationalist, the system is not a physical black hole, but only an analog system (as pointed out only at the end), and the experiment shows nothing more than the universality of such effects.

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Controversial new theory of gravity rules out need for dark matter

the Guardian
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The article is generally quite good, the conclusions of the scientific paper are not overstated, and explained quite clearly. The skepticism of other researchers, and the remark about the paper not being peer-reviewed published (as of March 2025 it still isn't) are included. Even comments by the paper's author himself, warning to be cautious before making any definite claim, are reported. Maybe a bit poor of references.

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For one tiny instant, physicists may have broken a law of nature

ScienceDaily
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Complete absence of sources. Deceiving sentences about "law of nature been broken". The explanations provided are not very clear.

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Universe could stop expanding, and collapse on itself ‘remarkably’ soon

The Independent
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Have the Laws of Physics Ever Been Broken?

Discover Magazine
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The article is clear, despite quite poor in referencing sources. However, I believe some important concerns and mistakes have to be commented upon:

-I find deceiving and sensationalistic the concept of "Broken laws of physics". As correctly stated some lines after the introductory paragraph, the meaning attached to the word "law of physics" is not univocally agreed upon: if regarded as a mathematical description of natural phenomena encompassing all previous experiments and observations validating it, then a "law" of physics is dismissed once new observations disprove it, and we need to look for a better description of the world. It is not the natural phenomenon that "breaks down".

- I strongly disagree with the statement "Indeed, almost every theory of physics is basically a retelling of momentum of conversation but in different applications." (both grammatically and conceptually)

-We DO NOT (as of July 2024) understand the nature of dark matter or dark energy.

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