the moment i see this guy appear on screen i know ive fucked up
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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holy shit, underrated comment. got me good m8
imho gravitons are the key to interstellar travel. we need to find a way to aggregate and harness them
This guy is mostly famous from poor quality history channel scifi bullshit "documentaries".
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.
How many of these physicists do you reckon have shared a cup of tea with Cthulu?
There are a few that have had tea with Cthulu. Not many, but a few. Physics at this level is sometimes about taking a good hit from a pipe and going, "What if" and "What might happen if"
Then they let real mathematicians and engineers figure it out to see if they hit on a lucky guess, Oh and Grad students. Can't forget the all important Grad students.
What's a parallel dimension?
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.
String theory was all the craze, at a time.
String theory makes more sense if you take some LSD I think.
If you can place a dimension that is orthogonal between two dimensions, then those two dimensions are parallel. /j
parallel dimension
Aren't dimensions by definition orthogonal?
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?
Got'em
There is not a single thing we know about dimensions. I don't believe it
What about infinite dimensions?
Mathematically we know a lot about dimensions. Usually it's just adding an extra variable.
I know a thing or two about the first three, thank you.
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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.
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.
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.
dude has been a public figure for over 40 years.
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
if you give them equal advantages
I think this is key. Top Supercomputers can currently simulate up to 50 cubits. Quantum computing is already at 98 cubits
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.
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..."
As I understand it, the "matter" part is a hold over from physicists trying to fix their faulty calculations.
Looking for "matter" that only interacts with gravity is a bit like looking for the perfectly smooth frictionless plane. I mean, somethings gotta account for the sums being off, but the real world explanation is anybody's guess.
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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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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.)
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?
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don't talk about my mom like that.
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