I’m not smart enough to prove my hypothesis, nor am I smart enough to understand any proof that I am wrong, but I’m not entirely 100% convinced that dark matter exists as an attractive phenomenon inside galaxies the way it is often described.

The way I see it, it might as well be a repulsive force between galaxies. This way it could also help explain Dark Energy.

Yeah, I like to think of it this way:

Dark matter is not a theory or even a hypothesis. It is a collection of observations.

Having “matter” in the name is kind of a presumptive thing, like “our observations act like there’s too much gravity, and matter creates gravity, and we can’t see any extra shit, so…”

It’s not even “we dont know what the hell it is” because we don’t even know that there’s an it.

It’s more like “our numbers dont add up but wouldn’t it be cool if there was something invisible that explained it?”

For a theory to be useful, there needs to be a way that it can be proven wrong. If there is no way the theory can be proven wrong, then it’s not a theory. Something that can’t potentially be proven false also can’t potentially be proven to be true.

The problem with this kind of off the cuff “but what if” stuff is that not enough thought has gone in to it to even know what could be tested.

he’s 80. he’s just old and losing it and trying to stay relevant.

he is legit and was dope in the 90s/2000s, he has just started losing his mind due to being old.

sort of like trump and tariffs. those were suppose to solve my athlete’s foot too.

His books decrease in quality the later you go.

One of his older ones (Hyperspace) is quite good and filled with lots of real science and math. Visions is pretty good too.

I think he leaned into the TV spots and airplay a lot and ultimately, fantastical stuff sells better. And now it doesn’t matter what he says, it just makes money.

See Neil DeGrasse Tyson for a similar story, though perhaps at a different point in his career.

A young woman from Washington state university has already proven classical computers can solve just as well as quantum if you give them equal advantages. Everything saying quantum computing is faster is operating on the unspoken principle of having the entire data grid already preloaded and comparing it to classical computers who do not have the entire data grid preloaded but when you give them both the magic preload pill quantum computers aren’t any better than classical

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/uw-grad-student-researching-quantum-computing-proved-classical-computers-better-thought/

He’s literally just the Ancient Aliens guy but with a PhD

Got’em

That is true for space dimensions, but there is also a time dimension, and would another dimension, that is ‘orthogonal’ to a time dimension not be some kind of dimension that offers alternative time lines?

Orthogonality is relative in the human condition.

So we have six primary orthogonal directions (up/down, left/right, back/forth), and with seven colors we get the 42 permutations of entanglement that make up the human condition.

But no, seriously, you have cube with six orthogonal directions, yea? But if you cut a corner off, that’s a fundamentally different orthogonal indicator as the other still-existing six, right? So that corner can be used as an indicator of a seventh orthogonal direction in three dimensional space. Thus, our neurons are calculating higher dimensional entanglements through a complex simulation of countless abelien sandpile models to detect aberrations in permuability that allow us to predict the future several seconds in advance, and so we are not IN a simulation, but rather each of us are our OWN simulation derived by the parameters of a topological matrix; that which causes the shadows on the cave wall.

In case someone thinks I’m saying something crazy imagine a universe that is an infinite straw. When you zoom a lot in the surface you see two flat dimensions, so gravity would propagate at one over the distance. When you zoom out you stop seeing the dimension that loops over itself and only see one, so gravity gets constant at that scale.

You could get the same with a lot more complex manifolds, that look like 3+1 dimensions at some scales.

Not a kook. Legit scientist. He has a PhD in theoretical physics, not a theoretical PhD in physics. While he spends a lot of time as a science communicator, he has his bona fides.

Yes, it’s all just theories and intuition like all nascent science.

Not a Kook, he is Kaku.

don’t talk about my mom like that.

how can time be real if we don’t even know how magnets work?

and how can magnets the whole thing if our eyes aren’t real?

while we’re at it, if our eyes aren’t real how can we dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

Oh shit, reverse the flow to the warp coils! Dump all energy from life support into forward shields and laser missiles, our only chance to defeat the psychic alien is to reverse and restart time for .00001 second, creating a terminal in the psychic time loop. Once free, we can concentrate our dark matter on the psychic alien, stunning him for just long enough to get him to buy a sketchy timeshare on Mars.

Thank you science word rearranger celebrity with NGL pretty good hair

What if time and space are but a dream that was merely a concept and we’re just the avatars?

(Also not a physicist but mildly interested enough to be uncomfortable yet intrigued )

Angela Collier’s video about this: https://youtu.be/wBBnfu8N_J0?t=2213 (Kaku part starts at 36:50).

A TLDW on the rest of the video: “Gell-Mann Amnesia” is a term Michael Crichton coined. It refers to how people read articles in a newspaper about a topic they are experts in, realize it’s all horribly written trash, then turn the page and happily read the next article about an unfamiliar topic forgetting they just learned the newspaper is trash.

Collier expands on the idea to include the Gell-Mann Complement and Gell-Mann Recollection. The Recollection is what Kaku does, where he doesn’t know anything about a topic but presents a simple explanation on it anyway just because he’s an expert in something different. This frequently gets him into completely bonkers territory, like Deepak Chopra level bonkers.

It’s not like Penrose doesn’t get out of his depth pretty rapidly. I read The Emporer’s New Mind and my first reaction was has the guy never heard of a heuristic? Brains aren’t perfect Turing machines but sloppy approximaters that make “eh, good enough” decisions.

Kaku is very good in physics, he just decided to make money instead of doing proper physics.

Penrose is also considered somewhat wacky in the field, mostly because of conformal cyclic cosmology, but does proper physics

He maybe means a parallel universe. Or a higher order dimension like in string theory. This guy is a string theorist so probably the latter.

All we need to do is reverse the impulsors and route weapons systems into the storage matrix.