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Maybe this article isn't the answer to the mysteries of the Universe. Maybe the article is complete bullshit. But IMO right now the reality is that physicists d
by PhantomGremlin 12y ago
Maybe this article isn't the answer to the mysteries of the Universe. Maybe the article is complete bullshit. But IMO right now the reality is that physicists don't really have a fucking clue about how 95% of the universe works. E.g. consider this[1], yes I know it's just Wikipedia, but the general idea should be correct:
Dark matter is a kind of matter that accounts for
most of the matter in the entire universe. Dark
matter is one of the greatest mysteries in modern
astrophysics.
...
the total mass–energy of the known universe
contains 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter
and 68.3% dark energy. Thus, dark matter is
estimated to constitute 84.5% of the total matter
in the universe, while dark energy plus dark matter
constitute 95.1% of the total content of the
universe.
So maybe physicists should be grasping at straws, maybe they should even be considering ideas from mere "biologists", because (to steal a line from Dr. Peter Venkman) "the usual stuff isn't working".
And it doesn't get any better at the subatomic level. I've previously [2] commented on that. How about a theory combining general relativity with quantum mechanics? The best attempt I've seen so far is from slashdot:
Your momma so fat even if I'd entangle
with her no information would be able
to leave her event horizon.
Nobody has managed to put gravitation
and QM together yet, and you want to
do it in a your-momma-so-fat-joke? Wow.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8715315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8715315