I stumbled across this unusual hypothesis the other day. Supposedly, the standard model is wrong, and this guy's theory is totally real and true and stuff. His hypothesis was rejected by Physical Review Letters (how unfortunate!) Sounds a bit like a pseudoscience to me (ultrawaves?), but all this physics makes my brain hurt. I was hoping the resident physicist could make sense of this... stuff.

http://ultrawavetheory.com/

I'm also interested in this, it appears like kook theory. Ultrawave theory, if it's wrong, what is his mistake? Looks like he built an entire theory on top of a single mistake (or more than one). Unfortunately I don't know enough physics to find his mistakes.

This is the way traditional religions work, too: The fact that we can't show where all their mistakes are is taken to mean that some of it must be right. I mean, you could start with the gravity principle that rocks don't roll uphill (on their own), but then somebody would ask why there are mountains at all. You could start with the principle that heat flows spontaneously from high-temperature regions to low, and then somebody would ask how air-conditioning and refrigerators work. It gets more complicated from there.

I’m more interested in Ultravox theory.