What is dark matter? - with Peter Fisher

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What exactly is dark matter? We can’t see it, but we can observe its ghostly gravitational effects on the behaviour and evolution of galaxies.
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Join particle physicist Peter Fisher as he explores leading-edge research focused on revealing dark matter’s true nature and what it will mean to science when we do.
In this talk, discover the mysterious, nonluminous form of matter that is believed to account for about 27 percent of the mass-energy balance in the universe.
This talk was recorded on 6 September 2022.
Peter Fisher is a professor in the Physics Department at MIT and currently serves as department head. He carries out research in particle physics in the areas of dark matter detection and the development of new kinds of particle detectors. He also has an interest in compact energy supplies and wireless energy transmission. Peter received a BS Engineering Physics from Berkeley in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Caltech in 1988.
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  • @ColdHawk
    @ColdHawk Жыл бұрын

    The long and short of this lecture, like every other talk about Dark Matter, seems to be we are still in the dark about the matter.

  • @wefinishthisnow3883

    @wefinishthisnow3883

    Жыл бұрын

    It's mind over matter. You don't mind, I don't matter.

  • @stevefromsaskatoon830

    @stevefromsaskatoon830

    Жыл бұрын

    Science is hard

  • @TheDavidlloydjones

    @TheDavidlloydjones

    Жыл бұрын

    {crash, thunk, splatt} We can hear the noises. It's a good thing we can't smell all the rotten vegetables your audience are throwing at you!

  • @jefferyharris4066

    @jefferyharris4066

    Жыл бұрын

    🐕💚🍕 dogs like pizza 🐕💚🍕

  • @Growlizing

    @Growlizing

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for putting a light on this issue.

  • @JPage-fj7mb
    @JPage-fj7mb Жыл бұрын

    "We know dark matter exists by the way the universe is shaped." ...Which we don't actually KNOW at all, but have calculated mathematically and also built a whole mathematical framework to support, and if that's wrong, well, we know nothing. We made our equations agree with each other and input variables we can't explain to make them come out right. Proof! Great science there.

  • @shawns0762
    @shawns0762 Жыл бұрын

    The missing mass is dilated mass. We have all heard the phrase "mass becomes infinite at the speed of light" this phenomenon is illustrated in a common relativity graph with velocity (from stationary to the speed of light) on the horizontal line and dilation (sometimes called gamma or y) on the vertical line. Mass that is dilated is smeared through spacetime relative to an outside/stationary/Earthbound observer. Wherever you have an astronomical quantity of mass, dilation will occur because high mass means high momentum. There is no place in the universe where mass is more concentrated than at the center of a galaxy. In the 1939 journal "Annals of Mathematics" Einstein wrote about dilation occurring in regions that would have less mass than that which would exist at the center of common spiral galaxies. Therefore it is safe to say that according to Einstein's math the mass at the center of our own galaxy must be dilated, in other words that mass is all around us. It was recently discovered that low mass galaxies (like NGC 1052-DF2) have normal star rotation rates. This is what relativity would predict because there is an insufficient quantity of mass at the center to achieve relativistic velocities. A simple way to confirm this would be to calculate the star rotation rates of a large number of galaxies. This would show that all the high mass galaxies would have star rotation rates that seem to defy the known laws of physics and all the low mass galaxies would have predictable star rotation rates.

  • @johnmcclain3887
    @johnmcclain3887 Жыл бұрын

    I have long found, I get as much understanding out of reading many of the comments, as I do from the lecture itself. The questions raised are answered by other watchers, or the presenter, and they typically are questions beyond and outside of the direct aspects of the lecture. This is certainly true regarding this lecture. Thanks!

  • @sciencegeekgrandpa8

    @sciencegeekgrandpa8

    Жыл бұрын

    Were you at the talk? The questions don't seem to appear on the video!

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 Жыл бұрын

    Yes the trumpet shaped Universe, the big band theory.

  • @eclipse369.

    @eclipse369.

    5 ай бұрын

    by Jack Black right?

  • @Simbosan
    @Simbosan Жыл бұрын

    56 minutes to say "we don't know"

  • @anthonyzornig
    @anthonyzornig Жыл бұрын

    Great talk! Thank you!

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 Жыл бұрын

    I can’t believe he’s written a book on something which almost certainly doesn’t exist, some people have spent a career on it.

  • @eclipse369.

    @eclipse369.

    5 ай бұрын

    You uncovered the secret of main stream science Money

  • @dirremoire
    @dirremoire Жыл бұрын

    "we know dark matter exists because all our suppositions and theories about how the universe works can't possibly be wrong."

  • @cobracommander3266

    @cobracommander3266

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly my sentiment. So cavalier about saying ‘we know’.

  • @_XR40_

    @_XR40_

    Жыл бұрын

    Precisely. It follows a long line of fabrications to protect current dogma that has been ongoing since "black holes"...

  • @rolandrick

    @rolandrick

    Жыл бұрын

    Once it became a business, all those scientists take the billions of funding. Besides, you must not by the book he presents, I can give you the answer to the title right now: we don’t know. The ideas and formulas developed by Nassim Haramein make far more sense without violating ART and QED but don’t need abstract constructs like dark matter or dark energy.

  • @pcarter1989

    @pcarter1989

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rolandrick It's pretty ironic you're criticizing this guy on a subject you obviously know nothing about by saying he's doing it to get rich...and then advocate for a snake oil salesman who started his own vanity project "foundation" to take money from rubes by telling them that he's the only honest one and everyone ELSE is just trying to take their money for vanity projects. Yeah, it's the peer-reviewed science that we should be more suspicious of, rather than the one guy and lady who can't get anyone with a shred of respectability to vouch for their work.

  • @toby9999

    @toby9999

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@pcarter1989Well said. Additionally the op was insinuating something that was not claimed. Research still continues.

  • @grizzlednerd4521
    @grizzlednerd4521 Жыл бұрын

    Takes me back to a maths lecturer I had who couldn't make eye contact...

  • @mize_yir_bizz
    @mize_yir_bizz7 ай бұрын

    Gravity Defined: Gravity can be defined as the Electromagnetic force that matter excerpts on the Universe, on Dark energy, that causes a "Dark Energy Field Effect" or "Gravity"

  • @deltalima6703

    @deltalima6703

    4 ай бұрын

    Matter does not remove (which is what "excerpts" means fyi) electromagnetic force.

  • @anwerbutt2621
    @anwerbutt2621 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir.

  • @imrankhakwani
    @imrankhakwani Жыл бұрын

    This video was worth spending an hour. Very informative indeed.

  • @CorezMon
    @CorezMon Жыл бұрын

    Whilst true that most of this is already available in many other lectures with the only addition being some unique speculation by the speaker we should see it as a good thing! Keeping it in the mouths of the scientific community keeps the research alive!

  • @philobetto5106

    @philobetto5106

    Жыл бұрын

    Smashing atoms is materializing dark matter... literally! ''dark''...'''matter'''

  • @mrcuttime22
    @mrcuttime22 Жыл бұрын

    Coming at this as a layperson, I find it fascinating that the fact dark matter forms a halo suggests it acts like a field; perhaps even the "donut," if you will, to the "donuthole" of the galactic matter that the former flattens or locks together gravitationally. I often wonder if the supermassive and other black holes might create this halo by some quantum or other effect. Questions I have include: How are we sure dark matter is even present WITHIN our galaxy? Do we see absolutely NO hesitation before galaxies collide that might reveal dark matter? If not for dark matter, would stars near the edge of galaxies simply fly away moving at 220km/s? And would the universe then be more uniform (chaotic) with rogue stars and planets? What part of a spiral galaxy still remain in that case? About a half? A third? 3/4?

  • @patrickbrowne7191
    @patrickbrowne71914 ай бұрын

    Fascinating thankyou

  • @michealfederici
    @michealfederici Жыл бұрын

    That's honestly super interesting

  • @jimmyquigley7561
    @jimmyquigley7561 Жыл бұрын

    Dark matter is a hypothesis which allows a mathematical description of "local" anomalies in the fabric of space-time. Dark energy allows a description of the observed anomaly of accelerating cosmic expansion. Both hypotheses require a total of 20 times more stuff than the observable universe to fudge a correspondence between observation and theory. New physics is needed, but I don't know what it would look like.

  • @sclogse1

    @sclogse1

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine radiation never ever expiring. That light, whether you think it's a particle or not just goes on forever even if the source is kaput. Pretty hard to believe. But radiation finally expiring isn't so hard to believe. Then believing dark matter is expired radiation is easy to believe.

  • @ronaldkemp3952

    @ronaldkemp3952

    Жыл бұрын

    Over-Unity of energy is the only solution to every observation, from the beginning of time till now with distant galaxies receding away from us faster than light in every direction. I came up with a slow acceleration that occurs only to stars and galaxies over time because they radiate million mi/h solar winds full of hot, charged particles at a constant while spinning like a top. It's a slow 1 mi/h (1.609 km/h increase in velocity every 10,000 years.

  • @eclipse369.

    @eclipse369.

    5 ай бұрын

    @@sclogse1 expired "light" would simply be the Aether since "light" is the aether moving in a way we can perceive and measure but at least for now we can never measure the "super fluid" aether...we only perceive it once it hits certain vibrational frequencies seems dark matter/energy is just another way for main stream science to further itself about from aether

  • @dreimalnein22
    @dreimalnein22 Жыл бұрын

    I think you should please explain and discuss the findings of Subid Sarkar's team. Thank you very much!

  • @Safetytrousers

    @Safetytrousers

    Жыл бұрын

    Given there is no wiki page about him, I don't think his findings are very significant. All I can find about him is awards and that he has among other things an interest in dark matter.

  • @albuslava7201
    @albuslava7201 Жыл бұрын

    "Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism, which does not admit this, can survive at the present day" by Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics. If physics wish to survive, than have to recognize the same ontological status of Information, Matter and Energy. That is a key for paving the way to new physics. Because of the fact that physics treats the information as just an artifact of interaction of matter and energy, even at quantum level - no way to detect Dark Matter. Physics should embrace the idea that information can play also a cause role, not only as an effect's one. Thanks for nice and instrumental talk - very interesting.

  • @jacobsmith4284
    @jacobsmith4284 Жыл бұрын

    Dark matter is a theory to explain another theory they’re having trouble to explain.

  • @horacerandyholt8439
    @horacerandyholt84394 ай бұрын

    I ain't a scientist and was looking for something more on black matter but came across this. I found it interesting and thanks for the video. Merry Christmas from Canada

  • @parthabanerjee1234
    @parthabanerjee1234 Жыл бұрын

    The real story starts at 30:20 .

  • @joyeternal2314

    @joyeternal2314

    Жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @EspritBerlin

    @EspritBerlin

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @1ifemare

    @1ifemare

    Жыл бұрын

    56:46 Best part of the video.

  • @davebeech236
    @davebeech236 Жыл бұрын

    Just throwing out an idea here: we're told that large bodies create gravity by 'bending' space-time, like a bowling ball on rubber sheet, to use a common analogy. Maybe the reason the galaxies spin the way they do is because, instead of bending, the fabric of space-time itself is spinning like an enormous disc, carrying the stars and galaxy with it. That's why they all move at the same speed. I fully expect any half-way competent astrophysicist to explain why I'm wrong. I'd appreciate the lesson.

  • @annprehn

    @annprehn

    Жыл бұрын

    Your idea fits with all the other ideas that are theory and not reality. Is space a fabric? My senses tell me we are barking up the wrong tree.

  • @martinwilliams9866

    @martinwilliams9866

    8 ай бұрын

    Love it! But I Interpret it to mean just as a bucket of water spining makes the edges rise, so might the rotation of a gravity well do likewise!

  • @averagehummus
    @averagehummus Жыл бұрын

    thank you for the lecture

  • @thenorup
    @thenorup Жыл бұрын

    21:30 "this is a great screensaver" This is a great screen destroyer, do you not remeber why we had screen savers?

  • @kevinsayes
    @kevinsayes11 ай бұрын

    We always see the graphics of mass warping a space time grid. What if when extremely massive objects (galaxies, black holes, etc) warp space time, it doesn’t just pop back to “neutral” when they move on? If it left a trail, something like a ditch on the space time grid graphic, wouldn’t gravitational effects still be observed? I don’t even know if this makes sense mathematically, I just like to brainstorm.

  • @keithmichael112
    @keithmichael1127 ай бұрын

    if the expansion of the galaxy is counteracted by gravity, so we're not getting bigger, what would happen if you were just floating between galaxies? would you expand?

  • @NOMADCREATIVESOLUTIONS
    @NOMADCREATIVESOLUTIONS Жыл бұрын

    This picture seems to suggest that matter is reducing over time (into black holes) and the vacuum energy or the space between matter and things is expanding - the less matter of both kinds, the bigger the vacuum thus increasing that vacuum energy and the expansion

  • @jfffjl
    @jfffjl10 ай бұрын

    At 3:16 Dr.Fisher refers to the expansion of the universe as acceleration, several times,which took me a while to tease out what he was actually saying. Kind of cast a pall over the rest of the lecture

  • @solomonlalani
    @solomonlalani Жыл бұрын

    Humanity needs a major breakthrough in particle / Quantum physics. I know it is a marathon, not entirely under control...but without a major breakthrough, the knowledge and this branch of science are becoming stagnant. To be clear, I am not undermining the objectives of countless physicists, and scientists working in the field. I hope we find a major breakthrough soon.

  • @CyberserveATX

    @CyberserveATX

    Жыл бұрын

    several breakthrough happened years ago....thats not the issue ....the issue is governments label them disruptive technologies and quash them ...dont be so naive

  • @Degenhardt450
    @Degenhardt450 Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps gravity isn’t as much of a monopole after all.

  • @CyberserveATX

    @CyberserveATX

    Жыл бұрын

    gravity and acceleration are indistinguishable........its all retaliative to the point of measurement

  • @eclipse369.

    @eclipse369.

    5 ай бұрын

    non mutual mass acceleration

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 Жыл бұрын

    Last years Nobel prize in physics was won by three physicists who proved that quantum entanglement effects are instant or faster than light across vast distances meaning it’s possible that aliens are communicating with quantum entanglement which possibly has the added advantage/disadvantage that not only will the receiver know the question before he’s received the question but the transmitter will know the answer before he’s sent the question.

  • @Jerc0lepsy

    @Jerc0lepsy

    Жыл бұрын

    False sending information through an entangled pair of particles is not possible as this would break causality. As we have no way to know if our particle will be the spin-up or spin-down , and we have no control over the collapse, it is not possible to send information through the collapse of the function. Once the function has collapsed, the quantum entangled state will be gone. What they proved was that our Universe is not locally real, which has to do with entanglement, but this is still not a way to brake causality.

  • @ronaldkemp3952

    @ronaldkemp3952

    Жыл бұрын

    General relativity is wrong, special relativity is correct. General relativity says it takes time for light to travel, hence a light year is the distance it takes ight to travel in one year. But that is not completely true under certain conditions. Like according to James Maxwell's equations on EM fields, when the observer or telescope is contained inside the EM field they are measuring, light information takes zero time to travel any distance. It brought on quantum entanglement's spooky action at a distance idea and the Einstein Rosen-bridge postulate about wormholes. General relativity says light takes time to travel. Quantum mechanics was right, general relativity was shown to be wrong. But like I said, only under certain conditions, like when the observer or telescope is contained inside the EM field they are measuring. Light information then happens instantly at any distance. According to Maxwell when the observer is contained inside the EM field being measured light has an infinite velocity. It's what sparked the EPR thought experiment into being called the EPR Paradox. It also sparked the Copenhagen Interpretation in quantum mechanics.

  • @charlesbrightman4237
    @charlesbrightman4237 Жыл бұрын

    Existential Physics: Do all galaxies eventually collapse in upon themselves? Modern science claims that 'gravity' is matter bending the fabric of spacetime. There is a lot of matter in a galaxy which would make a huge dent in spacetime. How could galaxies not eventually collapse in upon themselves if spacetime were bent to make it so? (Or is modern science wrong about 'gravity', 'space', and/or 'time'?)

  • @byronweber5364
    @byronweber536411 ай бұрын

    Perhaps because we cannot still quantify dark matter with the standard model, we may have to find another field of matter in the space/time metric from which we can propose a dark matter particle related to but not included in the standard model. Just a thought.

  • @StevenJiaWeiXU
    @StevenJiaWeiXU Жыл бұрын

    I still don't understand what is dark matter after attending this lecture.

  • @Norantio

    @Norantio

    Жыл бұрын

    neither do they

  • @erikgomez5535
    @erikgomez5535 Жыл бұрын

    Was the heavy neutrino experiment Mr. Fisher talked about the same as the hypothetical sterile neutrinos?

  • @jennabronson4704
    @jennabronson4704 Жыл бұрын

    “We know that dark matter exists.” LOLno. We know that some observations don’t match what we expect from certain physical models. That doesn’t mean we should go drawing epicycles.

  • @davidbrisbane7206

    @davidbrisbane7206

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly.

  • @rolfguthmann
    @rolfguthmann Жыл бұрын

    The understanding of the presence of Dark Energy and Dark Matter can be found in: "Atomic Gravity" International Journal of Physics.

  • @samuelross3150
    @samuelross31503 ай бұрын

    what these thinkers always fail to explain is that dark matter and dark energy are theoretical notions, which have not been observed and are not consistent with all observable date - but dark matter does exist as a subject to talk about to support a career to pay mortgage and get the kids through school.

  • @Pippins666
    @Pippins666 Жыл бұрын

    A fascinating talk - thank you. As dark matter is proving so elusive, is the notion of Modified Newtonian Dynamics - MOND- becoming a viable option? And as an aside, is the model ship behind you the Titanic? Lets hope the standard model proves more unsinkable !

  • @schmetterling4477

    @schmetterling4477

    Жыл бұрын

    Of course modified theories of gravity are always an option. Why wouldn't they be? The problem is that in terms of fitting the available data they aren't very good, either.

  • @calebpoemoceah3087
    @calebpoemoceah3087 Жыл бұрын

    If dark matter can polarize light through gravity, then could our sun's light that reaches earth be effected by having different polarization, would the earth heat up or cool down? I know someone did a study on solar panels about using polarized light .

  • @manifold1476

    @manifold1476

    8 ай бұрын

    "If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no need for tinkers hands." ____Anon

  • @davidsparkman6590
    @davidsparkman6590 Жыл бұрын

    Speed of light being fixed is an assumption that holds in the near space around us. Assumptions are not always valid.

  • @Im_MarkS
    @Im_MarkS Жыл бұрын

    Did i miss the answer ? I still don’t know what dark matter is, i know what it isn’t

  • @eastafrica1020

    @eastafrica1020

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't worry, he is just selling his book.

  • @jpdemer5

    @jpdemer5

    Жыл бұрын

    Then you know as much as the scientists trying to answer that question.

  • @johneubank8543
    @johneubank8543 Жыл бұрын

    I greatly enjoyed your descriptions of your work. This dark matter and energy stuff - well - I think we need to remain skeptical. Last year I read an article by an E. European scientist who claims dark matter clearly doesn't exist. For dark matter, he argues, to "work" - to explain galactic rotation - it has to be a sort of donut structure outside our galaxy. But, this scientist maintains, almost everyone in physics ignores the obvious problem, that small galaxies or clusters orbit galaxies where this donut of dark matter is supposed to be. And these small galaxies or clusters are NOT impacted by this supposed dark matter. So dark matter can't exist. Well, that's one argument. MOND is looking better and better. There is a great chance that Dark Matter isn't real - doesn't exist. Dark Energy may also not exist. The universe may not be expanding in an accelerated sense. The so-called acceleration we seem to detect may be related to the idea that "uniformity" or "sameness" - that our assumptions about how this works in space were wrong. That you need a much, much bigger region of space before uniformity is real. We have detected structures that definitely throw off our old data, which was used to guesstimate uniformity of space. If space is not uniform at the vast region we thought it was, then some of the galactic redshif/blueshift we detect may be caused by something much simpler than "dark energy". Dark energy - and acceleration of expansion - may very well be myths/errors. There is a prominent physicist at Oxford, iirc, advocating what I'm saying."" Super symmetry has suffered a number of serious disappointments in the past 10 or so years. I don't want to sound disrespectful, but Dark Energy and Dark Matter are under serious attack in academia. There are strong reasons to believe these are flawed theories.

  • @annprehn

    @annprehn

    Жыл бұрын

    On my astronomy exam was a multiple choice question, What is dark matter. I picked invisible particles with heavy gravitational mass [or some such] and got marked wrong. Correct answer was, We have no idea. I like that.

  • @johneubank8543

    @johneubank8543

    Жыл бұрын

    @@annprehn yes!

  • @ronaldkemp3952

    @ronaldkemp3952

    Жыл бұрын

    @@annprehn Dark matter is nothing more than an Accelerated Propulsion that only occurs to stars and galaxies, at a rate of 0.0000002007 in/s (0.000000509778 cm/s). This acceleration is way too small to be measured directly. It can only be measured over a span of around 1 million years. In 1 million years the star or galaxy would have gained an extra 100 mi/h or 160.9 km/h in it's velocity. The older the star or galaxy is, the more motion they will have gained. This acceleration is the same for all stars and galaxies, regardless of their mass or missing mass. There is no missing mass or missing energy in the universe. Have you ever measured the ratio between the age and velocity of stars and galaxies? It's the same for every star and galaxy in the universe. Dark matter and dark energy is not causing it. One single action is causing it all, gravity, dark matter, dark energy and even the high velocity dispersion of matter in galaxies. One action explains it all.

  • @davejones542
    @davejones542 Жыл бұрын

    Great video. But I get a bit concerned when I hear scientist say we know all there is to know about what makes up the universe when we are still discovering stuff even in the last 20 years. Need to be a bit more humble and then we might actually move the unexplained area forward. One of the areas that I dont understand is that if the universe itself is expanding, why is is natural to try to associate that with a regular force in the same way as a force that occurs in regular matter. There is fabric and then is the content. different things..

  • @ErnestSemerda
    @ErnestSemerda Жыл бұрын

    Dark matter = we have no idea wtf it is... Update today = we still have no idea wtf it is.. until next time. Brought to you by experts you have to trust.

  • @bryandraughn9830

    @bryandraughn9830

    Жыл бұрын

    You're right. Everyone should quit trying to figure it out. Maybe go out for a picnic instead. That's the kind of scientists we really need. Just think about the picnic industry! Teach me more about how scientists should not discuss research.

  • @jpdemer5
    @jpdemer5 Жыл бұрын

    If dark matter has mass, it does interact with at least the Higgs, right?

  • @deltalima6703

    @deltalima6703

    Жыл бұрын

    You did not get any responses, so check this video out. It is in portugeuse for the first two minutes or so, and then it is english. It shows that yes, dark matter interacts with the higgs, and it shows how exactly it interacts.

  • @justsuperdad
    @justsuperdadАй бұрын

    Once two galaxies' Halo's have significantly begun to merge what is the probability that the two galaxies' will fully merge? Is the bullet cluster going to regroup into the dark matter or will a significant portion of each galaxy continue on and escape the dark matter in the middle?

  • @lawrencetate145
    @lawrencetate145 Жыл бұрын

    Dark matter and energy are placeholders for "that yet to be discovered'.

  • @schmetterling4477

    @schmetterling4477

    Жыл бұрын

    Dark matter was first discovered in the 1940s.

  • @chrischristenson4547
    @chrischristenson4547 Жыл бұрын

    how do we rule out a modification of the gravity equations

  • @mykofreder1682
    @mykofreder1682 Жыл бұрын

    The particle mass seems to be a mathematical solution for something like Andromeda data, but they never give the math of the first 500M years and galaxy formation from maybe a sphere 100 time the galaxies eventual size with very very weak initial gravitational attraction. You turn on a switch and the dark matter makes a quick trip 100 times the size of the galaxy in 500M years, then the switch is turned off and parks in position to make the Andromeda calculations work for the next 5, 10, 100 billion years with maybe a massive black hole pulling on it at a much closer distance than that original 300M years. It doesn't make sense that it would move so fast to a very weak gravitational force and sit in some theoretical perfect position thereafter.

  • @alan2here
    @alan2here Жыл бұрын

    Linier expansion early on, then polynomial :) Interesting

  • @PetraKann

    @PetraKann

    Жыл бұрын

    linier then polynomial?

  • @0ptimal

    @0ptimal

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PetraKann polyesmial

  • @ZeHoSmusician

    @ZeHoSmusician

    Жыл бұрын

    *linear

  • @PetraKann

    @PetraKann

    Жыл бұрын

    @@0ptimal I thought that it was more expornensial

  • @PetraKann

    @PetraKann

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ZeHoSmusician What is *linear and is this different from linier? You have a lot of explaining to do Mr HoHoMachine

  • @meacadwell
    @meacadwell6 ай бұрын

    I was reading an article that brought up something I found to be interesting...in that it was a new-ish idea and not yet disproven. The 2nd law of infodynamics I believe it was called. It was posited that the universe contains a ton of information, what if information has a weight (even if infinestimal) and that's what constitutes dark matter. Again, I found it to be interesting. Could information have a weight?

  • @johnrichardson7629
    @johnrichardson7629 Жыл бұрын

    It seems at times as though "dark energy" is simply code for the mystery of how space itself expands. Space grows and is warped by mass. Space is rather more "thing like" than one would ever have guessed.

  • @ericstorey1864
    @ericstorey1864 Жыл бұрын

    Could anyone enlighten me, “ghost” particles are emitted from all stars, and the shear numbers emitted are beyond comprehension, where do these particles end up in the fabric of space, one assume’s that these tiny neutrinos have mass so given their numbers over time will cause gravitational effects, since the birth of the very first stars the number of neutrino’s must be colossal plus I wonder if neutrino’s are recycled in any way or do they simply exist as massive ash heaps (so to speak) between the stars and the galaxies.

  • @rudolfo9361
    @rudolfo9361 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the presentation. Question: By when will we be able to use dark matter and especially dark energy for our daily needs?

  • @nottsork

    @nottsork

    Жыл бұрын

    when they realise that they have got the calculations for gravity wrong , quantum standard model does not contain a parameter for gravity , so if what is more likely , a mysterious substance we cannot see touch detect or reflect light , or something we know is there but is not on the standard model , IE GRAVITY

  • @johnrichardson7629

    @johnrichardson7629

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nottsork Tuesday would work for me.

  • @arko961

    @arko961

    Жыл бұрын

    when tottenham win a trophy

  • @BB-cf9gx
    @BB-cf9gx Жыл бұрын

    At 20 seconds: We don't know what dark matter actually is but my book.....? Nuf said.

  • @robertspies4695
    @robertspies4695 Жыл бұрын

    is dark matter as defined by it's gravitational properties evident in the rotational velocities of stars very near the event horizon of a black hole?

  • @250txc
    @250txc Жыл бұрын

    I like his point on the time between Newton and Einstein .... Don't expect any new events here on this subject till another real genius is on the scene.

  • @NOMADCREATIVESOLUTIONS
    @NOMADCREATIVESOLUTIONS Жыл бұрын

    Seems no surprise that the past is getting further away faster in order to prevent time travel and all the complex paradoxes that would create. It's a natural barrier to stop us screwing with the past.

  • @danielcurtis4179
    @danielcurtis4179 Жыл бұрын

    I think it's more likely that there's not this invisible magic stuff but it's just a lack of understanding of how things work over long distances.

  • @schmetterling4477

    @schmetterling4477

    Жыл бұрын

    All observations over long distances indicate that gravity works according to general relativity. There is plenty of "invisible magic stuff" in the universe. We call it neutrinos. Please learn some physics, kid. ;-)

  • @glynnec2008
    @glynnec2008 Жыл бұрын

    The search for Dark Matter is likely to end up like the search for Phlogiston or the Luminiferous Aether.

  • @schmetterling4477

    @schmetterling4477

    Жыл бұрын

    Dark matter has been observed consistently since the 1940s. Those observations are not disappearing.

  • @anwerbutt2621
    @anwerbutt2621 Жыл бұрын

    Working on the fundamental question how universe is created and is working since its creation is a tribute man pays for immense favours showered on him by the creator. I salute you and the people like you who selflessly spend their days and nights hunting for truth. Thank you very much sir.

  • @Luke.Skywodka

    @Luke.Skywodka

    Жыл бұрын

    I would like to have a final answer. Imagine you've been investigating this your whole life, and you've always been wrong. I wouldn't thank him for that.

  • @martinwilliams9866
    @martinwilliams98668 ай бұрын

    You don't know dark matter exists because of the way things are shaped in our universe, you know there is an extra gravitational effect, you then make a rational presupposition (the bane of Science), & conclude it's because of some type of extra matter, I've come up with five hypotheses that don't require it, relative mass caused by dark energy, probability mass of the quantum wave-functions, nested gravity wells or contextual gravity, ambient mass of the photonic & phononic energy coming into our Galaxy from outside of it & curvature differentials between the negatively curved galactic space-time & the positively curved intergalactic space-time, it's tufted space-time.

  • @markw9841
    @markw9841 Жыл бұрын

    There are other fields of force that need to be in place that interact with dark matter.

  • @johnedwards2119
    @johnedwards211929 күн бұрын

    Penrose says there's no Dark Matter, so that's good enough for me.

  • @Machistmo
    @Machistmo Жыл бұрын

    This is utterly in watchable. This guy is just maddening to listen to… I made it to about halfway before giving up

  • @wmden1

    @wmden1

    5 ай бұрын

    Same here. After giving it two chances, I gave up after about 1/3 of it total.

  • @thomasvanderzee3332

    @thomasvanderzee3332

    3 ай бұрын

    I found it brilliant. Not packaged in typical soundbites, rather he took time. I guess it required patience and concentration@@wmden1

  • @saddle1940
    @saddle1940 Жыл бұрын

    I may be a bit OCD, but as I'm trying to listen to your talk, that model behind you is bugging me. Smoke didn't come out of the fourth stack from the boilers (maybe a bit from the kitchen and smokers lounge, which wouldn't have been visible). Could the amounts of matter between stars be, underestimated? Our star (and the planets) have cleared the local area of stray molecules, but could interstellar space have more than we have estimated in our calculations?

  • @ikkeheltvanlig
    @ikkeheltvanlig Жыл бұрын

    What if our universe is "just" another form of black hole, and both the expansion we observe, the background radiation, and the regions of more and less clustered areas that are attributed to dark matter are all just the effect of the internal fabric of our universe being twisted and crumpled under extreme forces that we don't observe because of our frame of reference? That there is no dark matter or actual expansion, only corruption of the laws of physics caused by us being inside a black hole like extreme event inside another universe? These are just shower thoughts, but it would make sense and be coherent with everything I know about astronomical phenomena

  • @ivan-Croatian
    @ivan-Croatian Жыл бұрын

    I wish I knew math as good as Mr. Steven Weinberg

  • @PetraKann

    @PetraKann

    Жыл бұрын

    Why? Mathematics is not a Science

  • @andreaswagner8356

    @andreaswagner8356

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PetraKann Sure, but it helps describing and understanding science.

  • @jebbait1669
    @jebbait166910 ай бұрын

    Based on our limited knowledge of this subject, is it possible that the "Stuff we know about" and dark matter is 50/50 with dark energy? Entangled pairs could be split into matter and energy.

  • @jebbait1669

    @jebbait1669

    10 ай бұрын

    To clarify, if there are entangled pairs, can the pairs be anti-matter and/or matter, or do the entangled pairs have to both be matter or anti-matter?

  • @darkwoodznunya9449
    @darkwoodznunya9449 Жыл бұрын

    not really understanding this "expanding image" shouldn't be going 720 degrees in every direction?

  • @nottsork
    @nottsork Жыл бұрын

    we know dark matter exists because of the shape of things , OR we need to have a theory of Compound linked Gravity fields

  • @BIGWUNuvDbunch
    @BIGWUNuvDbunch Жыл бұрын

    We know a huge amount about what dark matter does and where it is, and a great deal about what it isn't, but its microscopic properties are a complete mystery! If you're a physicist these days, then this is reason to be both frustrated (because of the lack of positive data) and creative (since there is a great deal of freedom to theorize). It's an interesting time

  • @Ripen3

    @Ripen3

    Жыл бұрын

    A huge amount of what it does? Do we know anything more than that it interacts gravitationally?

  • @RobBCactive

    @RobBCactive

    Жыл бұрын

    I saw something about interesting effects of dark matter shown by galactic collisions. It behaves differently from the known matter which passed through .. so it's interesting

  • @michaelsommers2356

    @michaelsommers2356

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ripen3 We know it does not interact electromagnetically or (probably) via the weak force. We know it is stable. We know it is cold, therefore likely to be massive. We know it can't be any of the particles we know about.

  • @BIGWUNuvDbunch

    @BIGWUNuvDbunch

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ripen3 I meant "does" as in how dark matter impacts things like the CMB, galaxy formation and evolution, etc.

  • @PetraKann

    @PetraKann

    Жыл бұрын

    We know nothing Mr Numbers.

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 Жыл бұрын

    An astrophysicist needs to invent a new type of maths which models three dimensional space with numerous mass gravity warps over time and then run the maths on a supercomputer which I believe may show the accumulation of gravity warps bends space outwards causing galaxies to move away from each other. It may be necessary to begin with star clusters which mysteriously seem to lose stars and drift apart. The constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, is an opened star cluster, all it’s stars are the same age and with similar chemistry, so what made a star cluster fly apart? surely they should spend eternity in each other’s orbits with perhaps one or two stars being hurled out resulting in the cluster tightening but that’s not what has happened, the stars are flying apart. This is where to find the answers to why galaxies are moving apart.

  • @TheGreaterU
    @TheGreaterU Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting stuff. However all the math falls apart at the point of origin so the big bang is not proven. It's still a theory, not a law. And the fact we can only account for 4% of energy/matter/gravitational forces suggests that we know so very little still about all the laws, forces, and particles at work in the Universe. We simply have a lot to learn and discover still.

  • @peter4210
    @peter4210 Жыл бұрын

    TLDR: Dark matter is a theoretical magical matter that was invented over 100 years ago by some guy who applied newtons law while looking at a galaxy and realized that the outer most objects were not spinning around the galactic center as slow as orbital mechanics dictated. They did move at the right speed if the guy toke into account that the galaxy was heavier then he estimated the weight to be at. To him, fudging the numbers to get the right answer meant that the problem was that he was not seeing the missing matter instead of assuming the math to be wrong. Because maths in a era they had not gone to the moon yes was obviously not flawed, he theorized that there is somehow a dark, invisible form of matter. Modern dark matter believers say that over 70% of the universe matter is dark matter, how every they are not able to detect or prove that it exist. In essence dark matter is the modern version of "i dont understand lighting, therefore it is god who is angry". Currently there is a lot of scientist who are working with models to fix the equation that we use for gravity. In essence fixing the math instead of inventing something that clearly does not exist. Turns out, most of these works require just a minute adjustment, Sadly, the belief in dark matter which goes against the scientific principle is so encrusted now that to prove the dark matter believers wrong, their mathematical formula has to essentially also account for all the dumb shit they also say is the work of dark matter which is ridiculous since they basically have to prove the earth is round and as far as we know also show that the same proof explains why the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, too things that as far as we know are unrelated except they have no proof. Basicaly, Dark matter believes are religious extremist with no proof for anything because its all theoretical since we are stuck on this planet.

  • @whirledpeas3477

    @whirledpeas3477

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you. Professor Flintstone

  • @lavinleitrim44
    @lavinleitrim44 Жыл бұрын

    18min in, I'm daydreaming, but what if dark energy/matter are like a sort of ocean, a form of matter that reacts in a similar way to water, as in well we're floating in something we don't understand, like a gas or a liquid. So then I wondered, isn't Hydrogen a funky particle, Hydrogen bonding is a big deal here on earth at least. Perhaps there is something more to hydrogen that we are unable to comprehend just yet with our current technology.

  • @mikebates8402
    @mikebates8402 Жыл бұрын

    We observe from a tiny point in an obscure part of our galaxy, and fill in blanks with magic.

  • @onpurpose2629
    @onpurpose2629 Жыл бұрын

    E=MC2? The energy, includes? Do you acknowledge the electric universe and plasma? If not you might get your pie graph.

  • @mystryfine3481
    @mystryfine3481 Жыл бұрын

    the question is: what is dark physics? It seem to be devolving into mathematicians scrawling reams of formulas that very few understand. Many tap out ti infinities that are “renormalized”.

  • @blengi
    @blengi Жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure dark matter isn't some quantum thing. I think it's a more primordial information state intermediate to dark energy and quantum field related information. Also it is mostly a relic/initiator of the process that created the inflationary transition in the first place...

  • @Yuri_Panbolsky
    @Yuri_Panbolsky Жыл бұрын

    Three scientific lines without dark substances - 1. "First test of Verlinde's theory of Emergent Gravity using Weak Gravitational Lensing measurements" "Understanding galaxy rotation curves with Verlinde's emergent gravity" 2. "Testing the Strong Equivalence Principle: Detection of the External Field Effect in Rotationally Supported Galaxies" 3. "Galactic rotation curve and dark matter according to gravitomagnetism"

  • @CyberserveATX

    @CyberserveATX

    Жыл бұрын

    you wish.... we cant even define gravity unless we embrace the religion of scientism ...have fun in that cult

  • @TomHendricksMusea
    @TomHendricksMusea4 ай бұрын

    Dark Energy and Dark Matter May Be Anti Gravity. This drawing makes a case for anti gravity, not gravity, as the force that comes from acceleration.

  • @karl2531
    @karl2531 Жыл бұрын

    There is no dark matter, the reason why the stars in the arm of the galaxy are all traveling at the same speed is because they are travelling in a straight line , linear path. .. The arm appears curved due to the gravitational lens effect. The second arm is a reflection due to gravitational mirroring from the gravitational lens. If the arm of stars were rotating then their speeds would increase towards the outside edge, but they do not. All the stars travel at the same speed, as if in a straight line. .. The influence on the stars positions is optically perceptual, from gravity lensing, and mirroring, and not physically gravitational. .. i.e. our galaxy is really just a comet shaped line of stars, swimming into a curvature of space, that lenses and mirrors... That curvature of space may be a source of great power... I think it's important for us to try to work out exactly what we are looking at when we look out into space. The gravitational curvature may have the power to gravitationally sling shot a craft to huge speeds, much more so than the weaker gravity of a planet .. Also there may be much to be learnt from studying the intense power of curved space... In short, ,, in my opinion,,,Dark matter doesn't exist, it's just an absence of straight space...

  • @alfredmasullo
    @alfredmasullo Жыл бұрын

    What if Dark Matter is on a nearby brane, but not the brane we're on composed of length, width, height and time? The string/brane guys say gravity can leak from one brane to another. So you can't find Dark Matter by searching through our brane using experimental apparatus. We actually would need to go somewhere else that had either more dimensions or different dimensions to find it.

  • @MichelleHell
    @MichelleHell Жыл бұрын

    Maybe inflation happens faster as you get away from the blackhole. The rate of inflation keeps the star systems moving at a faster pace the further they get from the galaxy. This is how galaxy systems are kept stable inspite of the gravitational and inflationary forces. How exactly do black holes interfere with the process of inflation?

  • @lennartvislanda
    @lennartvislanda Жыл бұрын

    It would be exremley interesting if it is a text in english languagae to the video. I am swedish and understand much better written english than a lot of strange dialects!

  • @PersianCat90
    @PersianCat90 Жыл бұрын

    I though the blue parts on the cmb were the denser parts

  • @ticklemeandillhurtyou5800
    @ticklemeandillhurtyou5800 Жыл бұрын

    I always thought that dark matter was alien poop that's what I learned in high school lol

  • @LarsRyeJeppesen
    @LarsRyeJeppesen Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic talk

  • @Anashadk
    @Anashadk Жыл бұрын

    I do not understand the thought that "we know dark matter exists". We know that there are some gravitational anomalies around and within normal matter bodies in space. Whether this is matter or not doesn´t seem to be proved as far as I know. Please explain.

  • @Ripen3
    @Ripen3 Жыл бұрын

    If you've seen one lecture on dark matter, you've seen them all.

  • @deltalima6703

    @deltalima6703

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your comment. Very honest.

  • @PaterExcelsior

    @PaterExcelsior

    Жыл бұрын

    For the time being this comment 100% is true in terms of factual content. However. Some lectures are better than others.

  • @jimmyzhao2673

    @jimmyzhao2673

    Жыл бұрын

    If you've heard one lecture by American nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, you're heard them all.

  • @sagittariusa2008

    @sagittariusa2008

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah, but have you....seen any dark matter at all?

  • @deltalima6703

    @deltalima6703

    Жыл бұрын

    Since your eyes detect photons you will never see dark matter. Its like hearing the color blue. Numerous detectors have detected left handed neutrinos, so we have detected dark matter. Right handed neutrinos are a likely canditate, but elude detectors, so far as I know.

  • @nonec5246
    @nonec5246 Жыл бұрын

    Missing mass? Something that should be there but can not be uncovered? What changes if the speed of light is not a constant? Can you really age the universe by Doppler shift of light? Of course there are things we can not see, consistent in our reality; The air we breathe, the forces of gravity, magnetism, electricity, and more. Physics is the study of properties of matter. Can we uncover dark properties of our universe?

  • @schmetterling4477

    @schmetterling4477

    Жыл бұрын

    Dark matter is a Newtonian effect. You need to learn to listen better. ;-)

  • @paulmitchell5349
    @paulmitchell5349 Жыл бұрын

    ...and what is gravity, and what relationship between gravity and electromagnetism allows a UFO to fly ?

  • @AliPo-ne3yf
    @AliPo-ne3yf Жыл бұрын

    So is It a invisible solid..like would it move a human like wind?loll😭🙌🏼🌉💫

  • @viktorbaraga4514
    @viktorbaraga451410 ай бұрын

    Just forgot to mention Neutrinos. They according to our ability to measure, have infinite speed, no mass no charge. Could it be, that we are not yet in the higher orbit of clear thinking. Would Tesla double coil help, by slowing neutrinos down and give them charge, so Power is in abundance. Am I talking to much?

  • @jeremyholbrook2094
    @jeremyholbrook2094 Жыл бұрын

    Could dark energy and dark matter be a function of 4 dimensional space in a 3 dimensional plane. If energy = 4th dimensional space in a 3 dimensional plane. Basically Hawking radiation being a function of 4th dimensional space and all energy a function of Hawking radiation.

  • @user-eb1zv6sr9e
    @user-eb1zv6sr9e5 ай бұрын

    Occam's razor I think we are just wrong about the masslessness of photons and we are trying to find the mass of a spec of dust on a home bathroom scale we need too a better tool before we can find is tiny tiny tiny mass. Super ironic name for it if true

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