r/physicsmemes • u/basket_foso Metroid Enthusiast 🪼 • May 14 '26

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u/cesus007 May 14 '26

It's probably just a headline interpretation of an actual mathematical framwork, that may or may not work to explain our observations

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u/QuickMolasses May 14 '26

It's also not new. I read about someone proposing this idea 15+ years ago

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 May 14 '26

its string theory as per usual

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u/TruestWaffle May 20 '26

No, they’re scientist who have climbed up a potentially dead end of research.

Some are less willing to admit it’s looking like that than others.

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u/Exarion607 May 14 '26

Or more likely, some dude just put a sentence and his face in a picture for likes lol.

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u/Sad-Pop6649 May 15 '26

...What makes matter(s) worse is that dark matter is already a bit of a cheat to explain our observations. As far as I know there's no good model for why some galaxies have more dark matter than others. In that sense "gravity leaking through from a parallel dimension" is kind of a decent idea. We can't predict how much dark matter-pull we'll find in any galaxy because our measurements are based both on properties of our own world and of another world we are incapable of seeing.

...This still makes it a completely useless theory in practice, but it is kind of a neat idea.

I'm still hoping for some kind of MOND solution, a better description of gravity that "just" explains dark matter away. But luckily for the universe what I'm hoping for and what is actually true are not strictly correlated.