In short, it's because "relativistic mass" already has a better name: energy. The relativistic mass of a particle is equal to the total energy of the particle (kinetic + potential + mass (E = mc^2)) divided by c^2. For more details, read this and other blog posts by Prof. Matt Strassler. He has an entire series of basic explanations of modern high-energy particle physics.

Here's a selection of abstracts of other articles from the journal Physics Essays (I am not paying $25 to read each full article). Scores come from John Baez's Crackpot Index.

Relative simultaneity does not exist

Relative simultaneity predicted by special relativity is shown to be false. This is done by demonstrating inconsistency arising from this prediction. The well-known train-embankment thought experiment fails to demonstrate the phenomenon and global simultaneity as exists in the Global Positioning System invalidates the prediction

Then how does one explain our experimental evidence that clocks run at different rates in various relative velocities and gravities? Crackpot Score: +2

Refutation of Einstein’s relativity on the basis of the incorrect derivation of the inertial mass increase violating the principle of energy conservation. A paradigm shift in physics

An airplane flying in the sky cannot have a higher inertial mass just because a person on the ground is watching the airplane, as well as it cannot have different inertial masses, if observed from car drivers moving on the ground with different velocities. Einstein’s relativistic physics that postulates that one can influence the inertial mass of matter or the speed of physical processes (“time”) by observing another inertial frame is actually not understandable. Because the relativistic mathematical approach enables us to get usefully and numerally precise results of nature observable phenomena, relativistic physics is nevertheless generally accepted today. This can only be explained in such a way that most physicists subordinate their logical reasoning to their mathematical formalism. The author explains the constancy of the speed of light, as well as the slowing down of physical processes (time) and the increase in the inertial mass, which are caused by motion, cogently by the principle of energy conservation. Nonrelativistic explanations of the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass and for the mass-energy equivalence are presented. It is demonstrated that the explanation of the inertial mass increase by Einstein’s relativity violates the principle of energy conservation. As relativity has therefore been refuted by nature, a paradigm shift is imperative.

Apparently, this author is not aware that physicists stoppped using the concept of "relativistic mass" many decades ago (Einstein himself said it was a bad concept). Crackpot Score: +29 (Impressive for just an abstract!)

This journal seems to be a crackpot magnet.

This group has an odd history when it comes to particle discoveries. From 2016: https://www.quantamagazine.org...

Here's a better popular article that explains things better: https://gizmodo.com/physicists...

It's a quasi-particle: a collection of known particles (electrons, in this case) inside a condensed matter system that act like a single particle with anomalous properties. From the arxiv prepring:

> However, it has been recently understood that axions can emerge as collective electronic excitations in certain crystals, so-called axion insulators.

This is similar to the quasi-particles with "negative (effective) mass" announced some time ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...

Arxiv preprint of the Nature article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.045...

You can get closer to a star with a solar sail. It all depends on being in orbit around the start to start. In order to get closer to the star, you angle the sail so that the reflected light is in the same direction as the current orbit (reverse thrust). This will slow down the craft's orbital velocity, causing it to fall towards the star. When the craft reaches the desired orbit, it angles its sail so that the reflected light goes in the opposite direction of the orbit (forward thrust), increasing its orbital velocity, and stabilizing at the closer distance from the star.

To enter orbit around a star when approaching from far away, the interstellar solar sail will angle away from the star and use the star's light to slow down. That way, when the light-sail craft is about to pass to the side of the star, it has slowed down enough for the star's gravity to capture it and keep it in orbit.

Here's a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling:

Any suggestion that for-profit corporations are incapable of exercising religion because their purpose is simply to make money flies in the face of modern corporate law. States, including those in which the plaintiff corporations were incorporated, authorize corporations to pursue any lawful purpose or business, including the pursuit of profit in conformity with the owners' religious principles.

It is a myth that companies are legally required to to increase shareholder value at the expense of all other goals.. There's one state supreme court case that agrees with this view, and several others that disagree. This idea is just an unsupported assertion by Milton Friedman in 1970. The executives and shareholders of a company are fully allowed to pursue other goals besides profit. There is no duty to keep a stock's price rising at all costs.

Here's the pre-print on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.106...

The primary result in this paper is the validation of the experimental design using a scaled-down version. From the paper:

ABRACADABRA-10 cm represents the first step in an experimental search program, which aims to ultimately be sensitive to ADM in the coupling range preferred by QCD axions. Future phases of ABRACADABRA will require larger magnets with higher fields, improved shielding, and strong mitigation of mechanical vibration. Augmenting the techniques described here with a resonant amplification readout and scan strategy will also greatly improve the sensitivity of a future full scale ABRACADABRA detector. We have already begun engineering studies towards designing and building such a detector and ABRACADABRA-10 cm creates a strong foundation for this ongoing work.

There are public-key encryption methods thought to be resistant to quantum computing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography

Namely, "Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17"

timestamp 24:15 for setup for the const trick; 28:00 for punchline

Yeah, customers aren't told what the scores really mean:

Ziosk scores are tabulated as an average out of five stars, and on the device, it says four out of five stars means “satisfied.” But anything less than perfect drags a score down and has the potential to hurt the server.

“The company only counts fives as good scores,” said Mathew, who works at an Uno Pizzeria & Grill in New Hampshire. “Everything else is basically a complaint.”

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Also surprising to customers is the fact that survey questions that have seemingly nothing to do with a server’s duties, like how well their food was prepared, are factored into a server’s overall rating. Restaurant brands, not Ziosk itself, set the questions on the device, which means they can vary widely. Some common questions across restaurants include, “How likely would you be to return to this restaurant?” “How would you rate the cleanliness of this restaurant?” and “How likely would you be to recommend this restaurant to a friend?”

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Brittany, who serves at a Chili’s in the Midwest, meanwhile, said customers have given her low Ziosk ratings because of problems with the plumbing in her restaurant. “It ... cost me a few shifts, so that was less money,” she said..

You know this phrase means killing yourself, right? Seems less than helpful advice.

The time delays between the three observatories are the main way to determine the source of a gravitational wave. More detectors allows for better localizing, with three being the minimum for a decent triangulation. But, there are other properties of the waves that can be used.

Here's a good explanation: https://profmattstrassler.com/...

Today, we learned that [a neutron star merger] has happened. LIGO, with the world’s first two gravitational observatories, detected the waves from two merging neutron stars, 130 million light years from Earth, on August 17th. (Neutron star mergers last much longer than black hole mergers, so the two are easy to distinguish; and this one was so close, relatively speaking, that it was seen for a long while.) VIRGO, with the third detector, allows scientists to triangulate and determine roughly where mergers have occurred. They saw only a very weak signal, but that was extremely important, because it told the scientists that the merger must have occurred in a small region of the sky where VIRGO has a relative blind spot. That told scientists where to look.