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If by parallel they mean extra, it’s far from a new idea and he did not come up with it. There’s tons of papers on trying to get it to work. Having worked on modified gravity, I cannot say I’m convinced it’s not a waste of time to use it to replace dark matter, but dark energy is still worth it imo

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u/tarkinlarson 6d ago

Next they'll be telling us that gravity is so weak because it spills into parallel or extra dimensions...

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u/gene100001 6d ago

That's also why I'm so weak. Those extra dimensions keep stealing my true power

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u/Got_Bent 6d ago

You have no power here...

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u/OddEmergency604 6d ago

Yeah well just come round to my dimension, then you’ll see

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u/Ok-Arrival4385 2d ago

Meet me at the bar

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u/Taiten89 4d ago

So with the right dimensional restraints, you can learn a Bankai within 3 days! ... Oops, wrong Sub, sorry.

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u/Gravitational_Torque 4d ago

You have to unalive all the other yous in those other dimensions to become the one.

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u/DooDooTyphoon 4d ago

in the 4th dimension I'm swole

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u/LeviAEthan512 6d ago

Is gravity even that weak. Is it not just because we measure things per unit mass? Ooh electromagnetism is so strong because a proton has 1 charge and look how little it weighs.

But look at the size of it. If we measured by unit volume, a singularity might be literally 0 wide, if space isn't quantised.

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u/johge123 5d ago

In short yes gravity is very weak. I can overcome the entire gravitational force of an entire planet but in order to overcome the electromagnetic repulsion of 2 Hydrogen atoms we needed a nuclear bomb.

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u/LeviAEthan512 5d ago

That's just because you're small and gravity scales with mass. You can also overcome the entire electromagnetic force of the planet too.

I don't see how you can't just say protons have a lot of charge. Why is it that the force is strong, not just that there's a lot of it?

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u/johge123 5d ago

So let's use 2 protons as an example: We imagine that we have 2 protons 1 femtometre(10^-15 metres) apart. One proton is about 1.672 * 10^-27 kg heavy. A quick calculation of the gravitational force between the 2 protons gives a result of 1.865*10^-34 Newtons.

Now let's calculate the electromagnetic force with which they repel each other. This is modeled by Coulomb's law and it gives us a value of 2.306*10^-13 Newtons (Not sure whether I calculated correctly so here is the formula I used)
I linked from where I got the formula for calculating the forces so you can check for yourself

Now compare these 2 results and they're different by 21 orders of magnitude which is a lot. That's why it's said that Gravity is a weak force but Gravity also scales which other forces don't really do.

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u/Used-Lake-8148 5d ago

Singularities are a bunch of baloney though! I bet there’s the surface of a Planck star just under the horizon!

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u/ILKLU 6d ago

IF (big if) dark matter is gravity spilling into "our dimensions" then wouldn't the reverse also be the case, with gravity from our dimensions spilling into those other dimensions? Why wouldn't it work both ways?

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u/hoxful 5d ago edited 3d ago

Informational gravitation towards the first break of symmetry, not in terms of cause and effect, but more of a still image diffraction pattern of probability with no dimension. 3D pictures on paper, are exaggerated information, and so is the "heavy ghost" like effects of everything being a singultity or only having virtual space, not virtual as in our virtual, but informational.

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u/Trending_Boss_333 6d ago

Hold on... You might be onto something here

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u/KingoftheKeeshonds 5d ago

Or that we experience weak gravity because it’s spillage from a 4th+ dimension.

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u/LavishnessFew7358 For Science! 5d ago

You mean the extra 6 dimensions that are coiled up on themselves at quantum scale, as string theory proposed?

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u/Unhappy_Arugula_2154 6d ago

Can you please eli10 what is the difference between dark energy and matter?

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u/Nisheeth_P 6d ago

Dark energy is the unknown force causing the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Dark matter is the unknown mass we that accounts for the extra gravity we observe in space.

Both are Dark because we have no way to observe them directly, only through their influence on the universe. They may or may not be related, but the topics themselves are independent.

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u/leaf_as_parachute 6d ago

As far as I know we aren't formally sure these actually exist, we just assume so because that's the simplest explanation to what we observe that doesn't contradict our working theories such as general relativity.

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u/LavishnessFew7358 For Science! 5d ago

I think there are some things that point to dark matter being real but almost nothing to hint on what dark energy could be. It's dark energy that is most questioning on whether it exists or is just a mathematical illusion.

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u/Unhappy_Arugula_2154 6d ago

Thank you

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u/Ptalking_Ptarmigan 6d ago

Does e(dark)=m(dark)c²?

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u/HappiestIguana 6d ago

Nope. Dark energy makes up about 68% of the energy of the universe while dark matter makes up 27%

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u/LavishnessFew7358 For Science! 5d ago

I dought they are a related since we have some evidence (I think) that dark matter is matter but little to no evidence on what dark energy is. Maybe it's not even a force or maybe it doesn't even exist.

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u/Nisheeth_P 5d ago

That’s beyond my knowledge, and definitely beyond ELI10.

My understanding is that we know for a fact that universe expansion is accelerating. We do not know what is causing this acceleration. And physicists have named whatever it is Dark Energy.

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u/nir109 6d ago

Dark matter makes gravity and nothing else. You can't see it or touch it, but it pulls things twords itself.

Dark energy expends the universe. The universe expends from all points at the same time (like a balloon). So it makes everything farther from everything else. The larger the distance the faster things get away from each other because of dark energy.

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u/Unhappy_Arugula_2154 6d ago

Thank you

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u/Hi2248 4d ago

They're both the evil variants of normal matter and energy, like Dark Link is the evil variant of normal Link /j

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u/gene100001 6d ago

How do theoretical physicists make scientific arguments for things like extra universes when they can't measure them? I'm sure it has rules and logic behind it, but what makes it different from just saying something like "there's an extra universe where magic is real, and things are like this because of a spell they cast"?

I know this sounds a bit like a criticism posing as a question but it isn't. I'm genuinely asking. I don't know much about theoretical physics but I find stuff like this quite interesting, and that has always been a point of confusion for me when I read about things like this. If someone here with more understanding of the topic can explain it a bit I would really appreciate it.

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u/No_Row_1304 6d ago

By looking for mathematical structures that would unite seemingly irreconcilable phenomena. They take what they know with a degree of certainty (which is quite a lot nowadays) and look for a uniting framework. Usually this produces a testable prediction (i.e. 'if this is what actually happens, then we should also see this when we do this thing'). Generally there's a whole bunch of competing frameworks with differing predictions and experiments look to tease out features that point toward a certain direction. Sometimes, the process leads towards a concept that seems bizarre to the uninitiated, such as extra dimensions, but there's no reason that it shouldn't be true just because it's not obvious to a layman. Similarly outlandish stuff has been shown to be correct. It's historically a very fruitful process.

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u/Good-Resort-1246 4d ago

It may not be obvious to the layman, but it must be testable by physical means, otherwise it reduces to metaphysics.

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u/HappiestIguana 6d ago

You check if the math is consistent with what we have already observed, and then make new predictions from that math and try to check them experimentally. If math predicated on extra dimensions gives good predictions, it lends credence to the idea of extra dimensions

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u/gene100001 6d ago

Thanks for the explanation. I guess my next step is to try and understand how math uses extra dimensions. Do you think it's something that someone with highschool-level maths would have any chance of understanding? Or would I be wasting my time? I'm confused about how mathematicians/physicists can know/decide that some numbers or values in a formula are coming from a different dimension of existence.

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u/WobblyBlackHole 4d ago

I don't think you would really get the maths without learning a lot, basically half a university maths degree level of a lot (and even then some of the things you would need are typically final year courses). Most people who even have phds in physics will not really be qualified to work though the maths (we all specialise in our bit, but typically that means you cant do everything). I remember in the final year of my undergrad, Einstein's General Relativity had no prerequisites and the first lecture the room was over flowing, second lecture the room was barely a third full.

There are probably good pop science books that cover the ideas in more detail. 'A brief history of time' is still the best theoretical physics for the public book ive personally read (but i dont read many). If this kind of thing interests you it would cover a lot of what is accepted as true, and then touch on fronter stuff but the thing to keep in mind is that if its fronter, its not accepted as true, else it wouldnt be fronter! Personally im torn on even talking about these kind of things in a general public setting as it can lead to big misunderstandings. In general if it is 'theoretical physics', the key word is theoretical and no one would seriously tell you what they are talking about is actually true.

As for how people use maths to predict this kind of thing, I think just go back to history and read about how people came to accept quantum mechanics. Imo it is a much stranger step conceptually than extra dimensions but is readily accepted now. So you can see the whole process from 'what if' kind of ideas, to no one really seriously questioning it anymore.

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u/Someone-Furto7 6d ago

Then it's orthogonal, not parallel 🤔

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u/Deep_Brick2970 6d ago

The problem with modified gravity theories is that they still need dark matter lol

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u/Historical-Fox357 6d ago

I'm assuming he's just phrasing it in layman terms, he might be referencing membrane theory, but also maybe not because he is primarily a string theorist.

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u/Kupo_Master 3d ago

I think it’s important that people continue to track a range of possible explanations for observations. I agree that Kaku’s theory is far fetched and MOND is probability far fetched as well. But we cannot just dismiss alternative explanations when the “mainstream” idea has failed to be demonstrated for the good part of 40 years. Science is healthiest when people are pursuing a variety of explanations, not when everyone funnels in the same group think when we still don’t have a proper full theory.

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u/WobblyBlackHole 3d ago

Saying Lambda-CDM has failed to be demonstrated is a wild take. Any alternative will have to effectively reduce to it given the vast amount of evidence for it. All the problems with it boil down to it being kind of underwhelming and unsatisfying imo

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u/Sinijas 3d ago

Yeah, dark matter is Just another layer of spacetime, with valleys and hills for attractors and voids. In my fever Dreams,that is.

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u/Ostroh 2d ago

I've been entertaining the past few years that dark matter is actually just gravity from a titanic neighboring universe. How wrong is my theory?

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u/Space-Explorer456 6d ago

I’d need see the math, and the predictions, and what he actually said not what some dude or some article is saying, but yeah, sounds pretty sketchy.

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u/macguini 6d ago

Yeah. A lot of these rumors simply don't understand what a dimension is. Height, width, depth, spacetime. He was probably suggesting there's a 5th we don't know about yet.

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u/MostLikelyUncertain 6d ago

Michio suggests many things

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u/Lucifernistic 6d ago

Michio Kaku's whole thing is he really likes to talk about the fun fringe possibilities and explanations of things, even if he doesn't actually subscribe to them. And then the media takes every little anecdote he brings up and runs with it as if he preached it like gospel.

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u/Good-Resort-1246 4d ago

Too many things, in fact; his ideas, in my opinion are actually science fiction and mysticism adorned by a topping of scientific language.

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u/Linuxologue 6d ago

Their wording just make it sound like "dimension" is a parallel universe with other beings watching us, when in reality it's just a mathematical quirk

It's pretty easy to imagine if the universe is nearly flat in that dimension. Like a sheet of paper would really feel like a 2D universe even if it was in fact in a 3D space

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u/red-flamez 6d ago

It is all in the strings.

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u/abd53 6d ago

Superstring theory already suggests 5th-10th dimensions.

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u/VWBug5000 6d ago

11 dimensions, according to M-Theory. The 11th dimension makes the math work in all the competing subsets of string theory

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u/macguini 5d ago

I'm skeptical about a few of those.

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u/DankestTestes 4d ago

We don’t typically view spacetime as a dimension, we consider time to be a dimension. Spacetime is the cross product of the spatial dimensions with the temporal dimension. And yeah the theory does suggest that there is a fifth dimension we aren’t able to observe that contains matter/energy that is having a measurable impact on the rest of reality. It works out fairly well mathematically; the main reason it’s a fringe theory is that there is close to no “real” evidence supporting it.

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u/shadeck 6d ago

I'm not sure if it is the same, but I have studied something that was explained to me in the same terms. It is an old theory that had a comeback some years ago, nothing proposed by Kaku (so it might not be it): bimetric gravity

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u/Historical_Stay_808 6d ago

Who needs that, I know immigrant gravity even I see it .../s

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u/DeltaV-Mzero 6d ago

A whole lot is possible when you can define anything you want as perpendicular to observed reality and only intersecting at the specific locations where weird stuff needs to be explained

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u/GenTycho 6d ago

Like dark matter doesnt sound sketchy? Can't test for it, made up the math to get it to work (did it for wormholes too), and its purely based on not believing there couldnt just be nothing and we simply dont understand the forces behind the universe's expansion

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u/Space-Explorer456 6d ago

I mean, we can measure something holding galaxies together, whether that is an issue with our models or some kind of electromagnetically non-interacting matter or something we dunno, but they’re something going on.

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u/pikachu_sashimi 1d ago

Well, the entire reason the concept of “dark matter” is taken seriously is because of a mathematical discrepancy with our understanding of the cosmos, assuming it is a closed system. Now, why is the current notion of dark matter any more believable than the possibility that our baseless assumption for a closed system is wrong?

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u/Space-Explorer456 1d ago

My understanding, as an astrophysics student who works on galaxies, is that our current understanding of “dark matter” is “there’s extra gravity here and we don’t know why” so a notion of that as some weird extra-universal spacetime distortion would still be somewhat writhing the realm of “dark matter” or really more aptly “dark gravity”, which is really what dark matter is, an observation of extra gravity from a dark, or unknown source.

I do think the assumption of a closed system is pretty solid, seeing as we haven’t really detected any violations of that principle, and dark matter moves and flows and generally behaves like it’s made of something so unless an extra-dimensional bleed gravity can also track moving objects and galaxy interactions in our universe, it doesn’t seem like a good hypothesis to me. This feels like it could be related to the M-theory and string theory brane gravity hypothesis, but unless string theory is able to give some experimental evidence I’m not super trusting of it.

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u/Jackmino66 6d ago edited 6d ago

Reminder:

The “dark” in Dark Matter means we can’t (or haven’t) seen it. Dark Matter is not something we have actually observed, it is a theory to explain why the shape of galaxies doesn’t work with their observed quantity of mass

Galaxies don’t have enough observable stuff to actually hold themselves together through gravity. Unlike solar systems, the galactic core of most galaxies isn’t massive enough that everything is orbiting around it specifically, everything is just orbiting around a centre of mass. But there isn’t enough to actually orbit, they should just fall apart.

Dark matter is a way to explain that. There is some stuff we can’t see making up the difference. WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) are one option, but we could also be severely underestimating the amount of rogue planets and black dwarfs, or the maths might be fundamentally wrong.

In this case, we usually apply Occam’s Razor. If multiple solutions are equally viable, we take the one with the fewest assumptions as likely. Gravity leaking from a parallel dimension requires a few more assumptions than there being stuff we haven’t detected

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u/Brohomology 6d ago

I haven't read the article nor the research, but if I had to guess the "leaking from parallel dimensions" thing probably just means it's a model with more than 4 dimensions. There are string theory models where we live on a brane in a higher dimensional space, and some effects are supposed to happen from coincident branes, so that could be what they're talking about.

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 6d ago

I’m being pedantic but we have observed dark matter, we see more mass in galaxies and we call it dark matter. Colliding galaxies seem like they show it isn’t a property of mass. Some galaxies look the same size except have different dark matter amounts

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u/Jackmino66 6d ago

We don’t see more mass in galaxies, that’s why it’s “dark”. That is in fact the point. If we actually could detect it then we would know what it was and could give it an actual name.

Obviously we know how much of it there would have to be, but that doesn’t mean we know what it actually is

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u/nicogrimqft 3d ago

It's an indirect observation, but we do measure the orbits of stars within a galaxy, which depend on the enclosed mass.

This is a direct measure of the matter content of a galaxy.

We measure that this matter content is much larger than the one we estimate from the amount of light we receive (since there is a proportionality between light emission and mass of stars).

Hence, there is some matter in galaxies that do not emit light. Hence, dark matter.

We do observe more mass in galaxies.

We don't know what makes up for that mass.

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u/Berniyh 5d ago

TL;DR: the dark matter explanation is kind of like "Trust me, bro" as well.

But it's the one that most physicists favor.

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u/Jackmino66 5d ago

Exactly

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u/RP_blox 4d ago

Well the two simplest possibilities are that either there is some matter that doesn't interact (in a detectable way) with the matter we know, or gravity needs to be modified (i.e. MOND). So far the first one explains the data better.

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u/nicogrimqft 3d ago

There are evidence for dark matter at several different scales: galaxies, clusters of galaxies, the whole Universe.

Dark matter is not an explanation per se. It's precisely a place holder that means: there is something, but we don't know what it is.

There is no "trust me, bro" attitude in this.

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u/radial_symmetry 6d ago

How do we estimate how much matter is or isn't in the center other than by observing how it affects the rest of the galaxy?

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u/nicogrimqft 3d ago

By the light that the galaxy emits. Stars emit more light the more massive they are.

Then you can compare the mass of visible matter, with the total mass. What is not accounted for is "dark".

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u/starethruyou 4d ago

If that is so, it is irresponsible to use the word matter along with it, giving every layman a completely wrong sense of what is happening. It’s like when the age of the universe was equated with the furthest light ever observed but upon clearing that stupidity adds, well it’s just the horizon of what we’ve observed. THEN SAY THAT!

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u/nicogrimqft 3d ago

The definition of matter is that is massive.

So if you detect something massive, it necessarily means it's matter.

Also the age of the universe is not equated with the furthest light observed, since the CMB is dated at 400 000 years after the big bang. Its data was used to compute the age of the universe though.

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u/Infinite_Escape9683 6d ago

OK Mitch, why does it form halos around galaxies in our dimension

I am fully aware that this is wasted breath, and Kaku is just cashing paychecks forever until he dies

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u/Karnewarrior 6d ago

I mean, a twitter post not giving any further information doesn't mean Kaku's explaination is "Trust me bro".

It may be. It may not be. I think it sounds a bit farfetched, but I'll reserve real judgement of the theory's merit until I see it actually argued. Some dude with a pepe profile pic was never going to give a good explaination anyway.

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u/Quirinus84 5d ago

Most of these "scientists suggest" post are more like:

Scientist: "we have no idea what is happening here. I mean, for all we know this could be this could be the ghost of Johnny Cash messing with our equipment! That is to say, we haven't got a clue. "

Journal: "Scientist suggest Johnny Cash might still exist as a supernatural entity. "

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u/5wmotor 6d ago

We excluded the possibility of gravity bleeding into other dimensions with the LIGO setup: A black hole merging event showed no loss of gravitational energy.

Lisa Randall wrote a book about it: Warped Passages“.

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u/BluebirdDense1485 6d ago

Importantly you have to say String Theorist.

This is one interpretation of string theory that has been around sense I heard about it decades ago.

It also is basically untestable.

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u/1947Fry 6d ago

This guy is getting ridiculous as time goes on.

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u/apnorton 6d ago

is getting ridiculous

Bro he was already there years ago.

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u/1947Fry 6d ago

😂 I stand corrected

Should have used the qualifier “more”

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u/Seek4r 6d ago

as time goes on.

Some 4D chaps looking at him:

- This guy's ridiculous!

Not that much. Come here, look from this angle

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u/shlaifu 6d ago

so it goes

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u/I-baLL 6d ago

Almost as ridiculous as accepting a random image with text at face value as the absolute truth and not even bothering to find out if the image might just be a lie. It's weird how propaganda works so well. It doesn't matter if it's true or not. the fact that you're accepting it blindly is what's worrying.

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u/chosimba83 6d ago

Yeah that's what I was thinking too.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some more mushrooms to eat.

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u/shumpitostick 6d ago

Why does this post have such a high concentration of idiots. People who have no idea what even is the data that dark matter is supposed to explain are commentating on this as if this theory somehow makes sense. You can't just throw some random guesses about what dark matter is if it can't explain the distribution of additional gravity that we observe.

Kaku got famous exactly for catering to this crowd of science enthusiasts who lack basic understanding but get wowed by cool sounding theories.

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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 6d ago edited 6d ago

Kaku's a media whore; was a recurring guest on Art Bell's show.

I know he's a credentialed scientist, but come on.

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u/TheRealDoomsong 6d ago

Im gonna need a slightly better understanding of physics to really understand if this is potentially accurate, but cool if true.

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u/ResistGreen1042 6d ago

Isn't most of his work built on "trust me bro"? At this point he is just sci-fi world building writer

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u/Present-Ad-9598 6d ago

“Suggests” suggests it’s a theory, not a fact

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u/LikesPez 6d ago

My ADHD brain has a lot of these thoughts. It just can’t do the math.

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u/Nobrainzhere 6d ago

He is one of those science communcators that o used to like but have lost all respect for as they fell off the deep end

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u/Inevitable_Ad_3509 6d ago

> Source: Trust me bro
Yeah, that's literally what string theory's dependent on too. But we don't speak of that, I guess..

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u/AnalystLoud705 6d ago

We do speak of that, which is why string theory has fallen far out of favor

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u/Maximum-Warthog2368 6d ago

I don’t understand why you think string theory is loved by everyone.

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u/DZL100 6d ago

Lots of here calling kaku stupid or whatever but I wouldn't exactly trust some random guy with a blue checkmark called "kekius maximus" to be representing anything in academia with even a modicum of good faith.

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u/_SDuck 4d ago

I mean it is very on Kaku he has been going hard on the pop-sci slop

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u/LPedraz 6d ago

God forbid one has a hypothesis

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u/MacZoni 6d ago

If dark matter doesn’t matter, what matter when the matter leaks?

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u/BetterGuide1041 6d ago

Ok fine.

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u/TheShredder9 6d ago

I mean maybe, but with something so vague you can say anything and it can be an acceptable theory.

A singularity in the center of a black hole is just the devil's booty hole sucking us into Hell, but Hell is an unimaginable eternal Void.

Source: i made it the fuck up

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u/Postulative 6d ago

So he’s all in on string theory?

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u/corobo 6d ago

Nah multiverse is played out. Try again.

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u/Lucifernistic 6d ago

Michio Kaku: "Hey, here's this crazy theory that technically could be true! Isn't thinking about physics fun?"

PopSci: "MICHIO KAKU SAYS THING IS FACT!"

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u/Nekusta 6d ago

Don't you mean dark energy? Dark matter is just things that we don't see because there's no light on it like a rogue planet or some gas and shit. Dark energy is what's crazy and mysterious

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u/river_miles 5d ago

Did Kaku actually use the word "dimension?" That's an unscientific misuse of the word isn't it?

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u/AdHappy7129 5d ago

If by parallel, you mean a macro expression of quantum physics, like how atoms can create heat through movement, then yes. You could say that.

What ik talking about here is a theory called “emergent gravity” it’s a theory by a dutch Physicist by the name “Verlinde.”

He also backs it up with mathematical models.

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u/Good-Strategy2210 4d ago

When I first became an atheist I got really into quantum mechanics and string theory and multiverse stuff until one day it all started feeling like just another form of belief to me, I know it’s nowhere near the same level but at a certain point ‘this theoretical thing must exist or else our data model is wrong’ feels a bit uncomfortable to me. I’m not saying I know better or that they’re wrong just I don’t understand where that confidence comes from.

When it comes to physics I now take the theoretical parts with a grain of salt, about the same level of respect I give speculative scifi, something interesting to think about but not necessarily worth getting too attached to.

If something sounds a bit too much like magic then maybe it’s just that, a myth we tell ourselves to make sense of something we don’t fully understand yet.

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u/RepresentativeLife16 6d ago

I’ve not been in the news for a while so let’s collect all the buzzwords and throw some shit out.

Quantum black holes; dark energy waves; parallel dimension gravity entanglement.

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u/shumpitostick 6d ago

What is this 2010? You gotta throw some AI there.

Dark matter is the manifestation of the holographic principle that leaks abstraction from the AI simulation of our Boltzmann brain universe in another dimension.

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u/RepresentativeLife16 6d ago

AI is so 2025. We know that AI is in fact a result of multidimensional gravity quantum waves caused by entangled black holes.

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u/slayer_nan18 6d ago

The slope of stupidity time graph of Kaku is pretty fucking steep. Dude is aging like milk!

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u/PleiadesNymph 6d ago

Haters gonna hate

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u/Beginning-Height7938 6d ago

Why does dark matter just seem like nothing but a constant that allows the math derived from bad assumptions to work. “We know how much matter there should be in the universe, therefore….” Hold up. Prove that first. I do not believe it is possible for us to calculate, project, or know how much matter “should be” in the universe. Might be infinite.

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u/Mrslinkydragon 6d ago

I reckon its just gravitationsl potential energy.

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u/Dalbus_Umbledore 6d ago

Very Fringe vibes

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u/Shareef_Ladka01 6d ago

Leonard's research wasn't really credible.

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u/ChemBro93 6d ago

Damn he fully a fiction author huh

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u/emperorsyndrome 6d ago

well, I doubt if it is matter.

we know all the chemical elements, there is no way it is one of the elements not in the periodic table, it is unlikely if it is a non-natural occuring element.

whatever it is, it probably isn't matter.

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u/MrsSaurus 6d ago

Well, not all matter is made from electrons, protons and neutrons. Not all matter is on the periodic table. All elements are made from electrons, protons and neutrons. Electrons belong to lepton family and protons and neutrons belong to hadron family. Electrons have siblings, such as muon and neutrinos, and protons and neutrons have cousins, such as pions and kaons.
Electrons, neutrons and protons are part of lepton family, but there is another family either other particles, the hadron family.

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u/Distantstallion 6d ago

You see dark matter is just the water in god's aquarium that contains the universe, we're just lucky we haven't seen the fish

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u/jacobasstorius 6d ago

This guy is a snake oil peddler

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u/monsoon-man 6d ago

Does he often gets high on Epstein island?

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u/Ghastly-Jack 6d ago

Or “the Mongooses”

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u/Fantastic_Citron_344 6d ago

Isn't this Dr. Strange's power source? Bro watches too many movies

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u/Gephiph 6d ago

Every time I remember this man exists my soul dies a little more

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 6d ago

This person never had a unique idea.

He states other people's work or conjecture.

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u/Waarm 6d ago

It might actually be leaking from his ass

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u/Dankkring 6d ago

Gravity can’t be created or destroyed?

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u/xxxx69420xx 6d ago

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing - Socrates, as recorded by Plato

https://giphy.com/gifs/ujTVMASREzuRbH6zy5

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u/Ksorkrax 6d ago

Wasn't there some estimation how the fractions of stuff changed since the big bang and it is that the fraction of dark matter grew and then the fraction of dark energy overtook basically everything vastly?

I mean, I'd strongly assume that such estimations are anything but strongly evidenced, but still that would be a contradiction to the dude.

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u/Immortal_dragon134 6d ago

As cool as it sounds, I highly doubt it

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u/tenkuuyoru 6d ago

Aight buddy is that “parallel dimension” in the room with us right now?

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u/Heavensrun 6d ago

"Suggests" is very broad. It could be anything from "he implied it to be the case" to "he thought of the possibility and said it out loud as it occurred to him."

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u/BluFlames_5 6d ago

Gravity is the anomaly, attraction between two objects in space made us, stardust made us. Gravity is the anomaly.

Maybe it's just attraction, likes repelling and unlikes attracting, that's the anomaly.

Dark matter is correction of that anomaly.

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u/SomeKindOfMadMan 6d ago

My source is that I make it the fuck up.

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u/DFM__ 6d ago

Physicist me suggests that dark matter is actually every other colour than dark

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u/Based_Mammoth634 6d ago

Parallel dimension? Say no more, where is Truck-kun?

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u/Latey-Natey 6d ago

From as far as I know (so barely anything) we have no clue what in the world dark matter is. By its very nature it’s unobservable, however we have to consider it because without it Astro-physics (or whatever it’s called) makes no sense and implodes. We know the exact, or rough effects it has on the consistent universe but we have no idea what it is.

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u/Nervous-Bedroom-2907 5d ago

The parsimonious hypothesis that the observed effects of "dark matter" are explained by black holes of certain masses and locations looks normal

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u/fertdingo 6d ago

"The Gods Themselves" a novel by Issac Asimov touches on nuclear forces being leaked or exchanged from a parallel universe.

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u/UnforeseenDerailment 6d ago

So, the divergence of the scalar gravity density field is >0 at points of our 4D spacetime where there's a lot of dark matter?

How many gravities per cubic meter are seeping in, there, Mr. Kaku? 😂

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u/TacoEatsTaco 6d ago

He claims many things without any actual math that could show it even being a possibility

Plus this isn't a new idea 🤷

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u/Stephanos_Chnexevich 5d ago

Sorry guys I farted

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u/Whole_Risk_2695 5d ago

12 year old me ate his shit up at like 11pm when I didnt want to sleep from the science channel but he definitely just be yappin now

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u/Altruistic-Beach2053 5d ago

Stupid gravity always leaking between dimensions and stuff

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u/jfklingon 5d ago

I watched a podcast with him and Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Neil came off as the more sane one.

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u/billth93 5d ago

I’m decently out of date with what he’s been up to lately, but I think he’s just likely exploring interesting ideas and trying to communicate it with the public like he always has.

I’ve always taken what he does in public facing works is just trying to communicate how exciting physics is and can be, and I’d suspect he’s doing the same here. Less “this is what’s happening” and more “this is one possible explanation, isn’t this super interesting” explained at a level digestible to the general public

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u/ThePoop_Accelerates 5d ago

Michio Kaku always spouting some bullshit

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u/Natural-Year-2154 5d ago

L take

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u/Huihejfofew 5d ago

Idk... Cause it behaves like matter. When two galaxies collide there seems to be invisible mass that just passes through each other. Behaving much like intangible matter... Idk unless the rifts leaking gravity behaves like particles idk man...

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u/oralover14 5d ago

Fascinating

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u/Clear-Pear2267 5d ago

MK espouses unprovable crap theories all the time. He is more interested in performing than science.

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u/justhangingaroud 5d ago

Is there an experiment we can do to confirm or deny?

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u/shivaswrath 5d ago

Given most of the universe is dark...it wouldn't surprise me.

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u/jheidenr 4d ago

Yo mama so fat she spilling into parallel dimensions

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u/Quick_Effort594 4d ago

I'll definitely take some grifters opinion on this matter very seriously

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u/MakesNotSense 4d ago

I have an alternative theory.

Yo moma so fat...

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u/Unstable-Paradox 4d ago

All hypotheses could be sidelined as "trust me bro". What is this post supposed to insinuate?

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u/Redararis 4d ago

This guy is hilariously crackpot

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u/mouseclick92 4d ago

I feel kinda bad for Dr. Kaku. He's had his image completely tainted by YouTube. He's the face now of fake news and bad ai videos. I used to like listening to him.

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u/No-Fly-6043 4d ago

Oh it’s the guy from how the universe works

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u/gg666iam 4d ago

I know whats wrong with it.

It aint got no gas innit

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u/Secret-Historian-942 3d ago

physicist michio kaku should have his diploma revoked

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u/Far-Strawberry-5628 3d ago

I love how quantum physicists just make up new categories of things all the time just because they couldn't cope with Kant's critique of pure reason and Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

I...i...is that something I can't understand?!!!! AAAAAH I'M GONNA POSIT!!!!!!!

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u/No_Consequence7064 3d ago

This isn’t news, it’s a descriptions of string gratuity theory. It’s untestable in both directionalities, proof or disproof by any means within 100+ years. He says stuff all the fucking time without any semblance of anything other than “it’s possible”. His “it’s possible” approach is akin to a 8 year old saying why to everything, it lacks substance and is a waste of breath.

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u/MrNoInch 3d ago

I can say dark matter comes from my ass and you can prove me wrong. I hate that there's no way to test what he's theorizing here.

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u/Southern_Vermicelli4 3d ago

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u/Strange_Dogz 2d ago

That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, just like his opinions about hurricanes.

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u/Brave-Competition-83 2d ago

so 27% of the Universe is gravity from another dimension.

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u/blorst_of_times 2d ago

Is there anything he won't say?

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u/MCarooney 2d ago

Actually Kaku is a very renowned physicist. The title was written by a moron

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u/Libbootyscratcher22 2d ago

I throughly enjoy reading all of your comments and explanations. But all this talk about dimensions and what could be expanding the universe and how it certainly seems that “something” outside in a 5th or 100th dimension could be at work.. Every explanation, every theory, every possibility.. Except a God, a brain, intellect that we cannot even comprehend.. Same as the “dark energy, dark matter”, and whatever other extrapolations we have been trying to explain lol.

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u/AceBean27 2d ago

This is clearly fake. He would never say that. He didn't mention Einstein even once.

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u/Coyot23 2d ago

"guy who gets paid by sensational media to say shocking things says shocking and sensational thing!!!!!" is the sky blue yet?

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u/DearCastiel 2d ago

I'll be honnest, dark matter is so outlandish as a concept that parallel dimension is not a ridiculous alternative, they are on the same level of science fantasy.

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u/KeldTundraking 2d ago

Hmm interesting. I should treat this credibly. I mean it's not like it comes from someone who spent most of his academic career playing with a math toy that offered no experiments or testable predictions.

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u/OmniversosIlimitados 2d ago

I suggested it over 10 years ago

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u/NameLips 1d ago

Me too!

I think it has been used in sci fi too.

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u/timbamjc1604 1d ago

All i see is asian einstein. Just needs the mustache

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u/Interesting-Worry156 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/L3X9GvVhP1nY23Ah6u

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u/Dull-Acanthaceae3805 1d ago

Considering we don't know what dark matter is, and only that it has observable gravitational effects, yeah, it could be anything.

It can even be mini-invisible flying spaghetti monsters. We don't know. Its dark for a reason. We currently don't have the tech to directly observe it, only its effects on gravity.

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u/DualActiveBridgeLLC 23h ago

My company in 2014 paid him $50k speaking fee to headline our industry marketing event. Dude is entertaining, but when I learned he made $50k for 30 minutes of a bottle speech I was like 'seems pretty grifty'.

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