Paul Howard Frampton is an English theoretical physicist who works in particle theory and cosmology.

After a well-publicized hiatus involving being victimized by a romance scam, convicted of drug smuggling in Argentina, and fired by UNC (in which he won a lawsuit for wrongful termination), he later became affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Salento, in Italy.

[1][2][3] Born in Kidderminster, England, Frampton attended King Charles I School from 1954–1962 and then Brasenose College, Oxford from 1962–1968.

In formal directions, three examples are that he calculated, in 1976, the rate of vacuum decay in quantum field theory; in 1982, he analyzed ten-dimensional gauge field theory, and its hexagon anomaly, precursor to the first superstring revolution; in 1988, he constructed the Lagrangian which describes the dynamics of the p-adic string.

[5] In 2022, he published the idea that the accelerated cosmologicial expansion is caused by Coulomb repulsion between like-sign electrically-charged Primordial Extremely Massive Black Holes (PEMBHs).

[6] In January 2012, Frampton was arrested at the Buenos Aires airport after checking in a bag containing 2 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the lining.

These include A new direction for dark matter research: intermediate-mass compact halo objects (2016),[14] Exploring scalar and vector bileptons at the LHC in a 331 model (2018),[15] and Electromagnetic accelerating universe (2022).

[citation needed] He was the author of a book[18] on string theory, in 1974 (2nd edition, 1986), when it was still named the dual resonance model.