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wewbull@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
holy shit, underrated comment. got me good m8
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
This guy is mostly famous from poor quality history channel scifi bullshit “documentaries”.
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 7 hours ago
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.
58008@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
he’s 80. he’s just old.
square@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Shit, he’s 80? I guess I haven’t seen him in a while. Back when the cable stations with educational names actually had educational programming, and not just reality trash, he was pretty dope.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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 traditional
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
parallel dimension
Aren’t dimensions by definition orthogonal?
cmhe@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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?
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Got’em
deft@lemmy.wtf 10 hours ago
There is not a single thing we know about dimensions. I don’t believe it
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Mathematically we know a lot about dimensions. Usually it’s just adding an extra variable.
HarneyToker@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I know a thing or two about the first three, thank you.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
What about infinite dimensions?
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So we have six primary orthogonal directions (up/down, left/right, back/forth),
These are 3 dimensions, not 6.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
imho gravitons are the key to interstellar travel. we need to find a way to aggregate and harness them
Paragone@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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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Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Interesting but i suggest it might be normal matter that had a bad childhood experience and turned evil. We can save it tho
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
What’s a parallel dimension?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
He maybe means a parallel universe. Or a higher order dimension like in string theory. This guy is a string theorist so probably the later.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
String theory was a all the craze, at a time.
Zacryon@feddit.org 4 hours ago
If you can place a dimension that is orthogonal between two dimensions, then those two dimensions are parallel. /j
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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.
addie@feddit.uk 1 day ago
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.
Kefla@hexbear.net 1 day ago
As a theoretical physicist (my degree is theoretical) I think dark matter is trillions of little spacebugs scurrying all around the place
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
This strikes me as the kind of conjecture that has no predictive power, and therefore must be discarded
Maybe it doesn’t provide much in itself, but can help with providing an alternate framework for thinking about observational anomalies in the future.
Heliocentrism didn’t actually improve the predictions of planet movement over geocentric models with epicycles, at least until Kepler swapped out circles for ellipses. So heliocentrism didn’t give an immediate advantage, but laid the groundwork for later improvements that could surpass the limits of geocentrism.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, this guy is so full of shit.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Angela Collier’s video about this: 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.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s not like Penrose doesn’t get out of his depth pretty rapidly. I read The Empires 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.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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
TachyonTele@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Penrose is also a legend
Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not a kook. Legit scientist. He has a PhD in theoretical physics, not a theoretical PhD in physics. While is 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.
Brummbaer@pawb.social 1 day ago
A PhD is not a “get out of Jail” card for kookery.
He is definitely part of the “woo” people in his field.
Korval@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You can be both credentialed and a kook, can’t you? I remember him from his regular guest appearances on Art Bell’s radio show.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He has a PhD in theoretical physics, not a theoretical PhD in physics.
lol, I just rolled through HELIOS One on this current play through of F:NV
wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
There are plenty of crazies who have their PhD in some branch of physics/math. One of the reasons I stopped at a bachelor’s in physics.
Its almost a prerequisite. But from what I’ve read of him in the past, he’s pretty far out there.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I remember from a podcast with a guy in the same area of Kaku saying that he’s not seem with good eyes in their community for saying things that doesn’t make much sense.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not a Kook, he is Kaku.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
He’s a heavily published professor of theoretical physics that has been working on string theory, and working as a science communicator, for decades. I have one of his books from the 90s. Globally well-respected smart dude.
By comparison, you kind of seem like a kook because you can’t search a name before making assumptions about someone based on physicality alone.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
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.)
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
don’t talk about my mom like that.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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?
BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
they dont think it be like it is but it do 🤔
Juice@midwest.social 16 hours ago
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 quantum computing
Smoogs@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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 )
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
A hypothesis is only valid if it has any basis in reality AND a way to falsify it.
You can’t just say “it’s cause god got bored” that’s not valid.
You can say “it’s another dimension leaking, here’s something we can check and if we observe this, then it’s not true.”
Just throwing out random ideas isn’t a hypothesis, it’s fiction.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My first question was how do you falsify this?
Zerush@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
That is the point, you can’t even check it. You can’t check if Dark Matter is caused by an paralel dimension or not. Ous science is still very basic, we know the phenomens, we even can calculate and use it (eg.gravity lenses), but we don’t know what it is, we don’t even really know what is light.
Sabata11792@ani.social 23 hours ago
any hypothesis is valid
I suspect dark matter is actually just the gravitational pull of OPs mother slipping in from a parallel dimension.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
/c/pseudoscience_meme
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You do know that he’s heavily published professor of theoretical physics, right?
Or did you not understand the words and throw shade at a physicist simply because you don’t know much about theoreticial physics?
kureta@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
He is a really interesting case. He is a real, actual, published theoretical physicist. But his popular science persona made him a bit weird. For example, in this video, alongside Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder, he looks like a sci-fi hype-man.
fox@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Michio Kaku is first a futurist and second an entertainer and third a physicist. He hasn’t published any research since the 90s from what I can tell, and all of his work back in the day was around string theory, which is more or less discarded today because it’s not falsifiable. Clearly he needed a lot of mathematical skill to competently study and discover new string theory concepts, but since the 90s he’s mostly been a science entertainer and a crank babbling about quantum computers, longevity, superintelligence, parallel dimensions, and extraterrestrials, all of which are distinctly not his domain of expertise and most of which are unfalsifiable.
Michio Kaku’s job is to go on TV and go on podcasts and talk about science fiction as if it were real to credulous hosts.
EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 13 hours ago
Jordan Peterson is also a published professor. The bar isn’t that high.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
theoretical physics is is a lot of pseudo science.
webkitten@piefed.social 19 hours ago
So isn’t Steven Pinker. Doesn’t mean academics can’t be idiots.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 13 hours ago
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.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Correction: 27% of all the everything (“total mass-energy content”), not just the matter. Dark matter actually “outweighs” (so to speak) normal matter by a factor of 5 or so.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
So we are the internal organs/blood vessels in a dude standing in a super packed subway and the dude is getting squeezed on all sides by 250kg Walmart shoppers.
Smeagol666@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
Correction: 27% of everything will be owned by Rupert Murdoch. Whatever he says goes.
huf@hexbear.net 1 day ago
BearerOfPickles@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Angela Collier would love that one
huf@hexbear.net 1 day ago
i’m sure she knows about it
BearerOfPickles@hexbear.net 1 day ago
I hope he used the word “leaking” in the “paper” he submits.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
Makes sense. I always suspected it’s parallel dimension gravity.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 21 hours ago
I mean … We all KNEW but we’re afraid to speak up.
(If it turns out that this theory is crap I want you to forget this comment and I’ll simply delete and repost it when the next theory comes around. )
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 day ago
The “chicken attack” guy is a physicist?
shath@hexbear.net 1 day ago
it came to me in a dream
Airfried@piefed.social 1 day ago
Sounds far fetched. Like from another dimension kind of far fetched.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Aren’t all dimensions parallel in the multiverse?
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Except for the ones that intersect.
texture@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
the moment i see this guy appear on screen i know ive fucked up