No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology

> cosmological constant is derivable from the Standard Model.

Well.. not really directly "derivable."

To be more specific, the "problem" is: when using the the "Standard Model of particle physics" (which is confirmed time and again for anything we do with the particles, and which, of course, we anyway know that is still inconsistent with the General Relativity model) to calculate the "renormalized value of the zero-point vacuum energy density" as the contribution to the cosmological constant, the number is calculated that, to our present understanding of the factors involved, can't match our cosmological measurements. Note that that "renormalization" process is a method used otherwise to "extract" the finite answer from the divergent expression (i.e. one that would involve infinities). Applying such method in this derivations gets the "wrong" number.

It's much less surprising when it is stated precisely. Attempting specific derivations in which the "infinities" are "avoided" by using a specific approach which for some other cases works, we discover that in these derivations the mentioned approach "doesn't work", that is, that something is missing in an attempt to compare two theories for which we anyway know that they aren't consistent when they have to be applied together.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3365

Luckily, these inconsistencies aren't something that prevents us to use both General Relativity and the Standard Model independently to great success. Using them together is needed only to model very extreme conditions like writing the equations for some point inside of the black hole or something like that. And that doesn't disprove black holes in any way: we measured even their collisions(!) using the predictions of the models.

And we can claim already:

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/29/seriousl...

"The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood"

We have definitely not observed spontaneous creation of virtual pairs in a vacuum. I do not blame you for thinking so as it is often described this way.

Almost no computation in Quantum Field Theory can be done exactly. What physicists do is using perturbation theory which is very similar to doing Taylor series in introductory calculus. Feynman, in a genius inspiration, found a way to represent the various mathematical terms that occur in these types of calculations as pictures which could be described in words. In this pictorial language, one would say things like "this term correspond to the creation of a virtual pair of particles", etc." The perturbation expansion is a mathematical "trick" done so that we can do obtain approximate results. Each individual term in that expansion has no physical meaning - in spite of the pictorial language used.

I thought he was planning to use the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope which is still in the works, and not to be confused with the Ice Cube neutrino detector which has been operational for several years.

https://cdr.skatelescope.org/

https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/detector