References: [1] out of his ass
2026-05-14 11:17 UTC
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@IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2026-05-14 11:27
The thing with dark matter is it's just a placeholder term for "we don't know what the hell it is", and aren't most hypotheses pulled out of the ass before experimentation to prove them? Plus, Dr. Kaku is a string theorist so wacky is pretty much par for the course in that field. Granted, I consider him more of a TV personality these days and grew up watching him as a speaker on [insert any number of Discovery Channel shows here]. Maybe I'm just biased and enjoy the wacky theories because I'm more interested in seeing them proven right or wrong and thinking about the implications if they happen to prove correct.
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@58008@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 20:47
I thought this guy was a legit scientist, but I read his recent book Quantum Supremacy and it was all shit like "with quantum computing, in the future you will be able to solve athlete's foot". Literally everything you can think of is going to be quantummaxxed by cubits, according to him. Need your car serviced but the garage isn't open on Sundays? Quantum computing. Need your mother-in-law to dial down the snarky comments about your new house? QUANTUM COMPUTING. Frequently walk into a room, forget why you went in there, leave, then immediately remember why you went in the second you cross the threshold? MOTHERFUCKING QUANTUM COMPUTING! I'm sure he is a legit scientist, of course, but as a science communicator and terminal book-hawker, he's no better than Joe Rogan.
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@Fizz@lemmy.nz 2026-05-14 11:44
Interesting but i suggest it might be normal matter that had a bad childhood experience and turned evil. We can save it tho
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@starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-14 23:29
>parallel dimension Aren't dimensions by definition orthogonal?
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@addie@feddit.uk 2026-05-14 14:07
Scientific method and all that. Any conjecture is okay. Now, what's the hypothesis that you can make out of it? We've plenty of observations that don't match theory, which we believe to be on account of dark matter - galaxy rotation speeds, what happens in the core of a type 2 supernova, and so on. Does this hypothesis explain those problems better than what we have? If it does, keep it. If it doesn't, discard it. Repeat, until we've solved all the mysteries of the universe by banging our heads against them. This strikes me as the kind of conjecture that has no predictive power, and therefore must be discarded, but I'm no PhD-level theoretical physicist.
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@Carrolade@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 11:42
I see nothing wrong with suggesting that, so long as it is made clear he is discussing one of many theoretical possibilities. Is he a kook? He does kinda look like one, but so do a lot of legit scientists, so that's not a good measure.
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@wewbull@feddit.uk 2026-05-15 12:25
Quick! Get the Flexseal.
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@OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 15:36
What he's probably saying is not that far out. Dark matter was proposed initially because at galaxy scales the gravity force doesn't seem to match the one created by the visible matter in that galaxy, while others tried to propose modified laws of gravity at that scale. He is probably defending the later via compactified dimensions, so at some scales gravity stops transmitting at one over the distance squared, as those extra dimensions start to make an effect somehow.
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@ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 11:23
Yeah, this guy is so full of shit. Edit: Whoever doesn't like it, go watch his discussion with Roger Penrose, etc. He's *so obviously* out of his depth when he's not talking about speculative pop science bullshit.
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@TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-15 10:31
This guy is mostly famous from poor quality history channel scifi bullshit "documentaries".
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@Zerush@lemmy.ml 2026-05-14 13:20
As long as we do not know what Dark Matter or Dark Energy is, any hypothesis is valid. Scientific method is to err above towards the truth.
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@gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2026-05-15 19:59
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@HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 2026-05-15 07:44
To be fair, this is the level of physics where if they discover things right out of fantasy book (teleportation, mind reading, transmutation etc) I wouldn't be even surprised.
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@Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2026-05-14 19:38
What if dark matter is a time artifact of gravitational waves over time/space as particles with mass travel through time/space? (I am not a physicist and I don't understand jack shit.)
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@texture@lemmy.world 2026-05-15 14:55
the moment i see this guy appear on screen i know ive fucked up
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@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-14 13:38
/c/pseudoscience_memes
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@huf@hexbear.net 2026-05-14 12:17
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
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@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-15 08:30
What's a parallel dimension?
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@Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 2026-05-15 20:04
quick, get the xkcd
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-05-14 14:36
Makes sense. I always suspected it's parallel dimension gravity.
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@tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2026-05-14 11:57
The "chicken attack" guy is a physicist?
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@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 12:24
cool theory, Probably impossible to test let alone prove. but fun theory anyways. Would it be OK if I pat myself in the back because I wondered if that was a possibility when I learned about dark matter? I'm not a physicist, but I was thinking about parallel dimensions fiction and asked that question.
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@Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2026-05-15 01:32
27% of the matter in the universe isn't a leak, it's a deluge. With that much gravitational force, seems like the other dimension would be pulling part of our universe into theirs.
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@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2026-05-15 13:04
imho gravitons are the key to interstellar travel. we need to find a way to aggregate and harness them
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@Airfried@piefed.social 2026-05-14 13:10
Sounds far fetched. Like from another dimension kind of far fetched.
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@melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2026-05-14 12:39
Aren't all dimensions parallel in the multiverse?
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@Paragone@lemmy.world 2026-05-15 06:43
I've been insisting this for years: it eradicates the bullshit of hyperinflation being required to smooth the CMB, it explains why gravity's sooo weak, compared with the contained-within-this-3d-space forces, like electromagnitism, it explains why there exist galaxies of dark-matter which don't have any conventional-matter, it explains why there exist galaxies of conventional-matter which don't have any dark-matter. The gravity's diffusing through MANY 3D-spaces, not just ours. the other forces are contained-within-this-3D-space. Therefore OUR gravity is "dark matter" in other 3D-spaces, too. The smoothing-of-the-CMB is simple: instead of 1x 3D-space having hyperinflation, there are thousands of 3D-spaces ( or zillions: whatever the math says matches ), & EACH of them inflated at speed-of-light or less, not at zillions-of-times-c. The painting-method called "glazing" is essentially the same idea: da Vince used many many thin layers of paint, to make ultra-smooth tones.. the many-many-many-3D-spaces all "underlying" each-other smoothes-out the gravity among them all, so local-lumpiness simply isn't a significant part of the equation, as it would appear. --- Part of this is on the E = speed-of-gravity * mass * speed-of-light, though, so it's *arithmetically* identical to the conventional E=mc^2 rendition, but would gravity & light both be traveling at the same mps speed through say a 100km of quartz? XOR would the refractive-index be different for gravity & light? That *structural* difference is what the speed-of-gravity * mass * speed-of-light variant was trying to show. _ /\ _
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@huf@hexbear.net 2026-05-14 13:27
i'm sure she knows about it
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@BearerOfPickles@hexbear.net 2026-05-14 13:21
I hope he used the word "leaking" in the "paper" he submits.
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@shath@hexbear.net 2026-05-14 14:20
it came to me in a dream