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At the centre Every faster-than-light proposal depends on exotic matter, which does not exist and was invented to make the equations behave. Last stated 22 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago Holds AFAdam Frank Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Wormholes are not yet an engineering problem, but they sit entirely within the realm of plausible physics. Last stated 5 May 2025 · a year ago Holds JLJanna Levin
• Similar wording A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences. Last stated 3 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago Holds LRLisa Randall
• Similar wording The frontier of new physics is not high-energy particle physics or quantum gravity, but the problems of life and intelligence. Last stated 13 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago Holds SWSara Walker
• Similar wording Physics will be unified again as it has been before; the obstacle is that relativity and quantum mechanics already explain almost everything we can measure. Last stated 14 Jun 2025 · a year ago Holds TTTerence Tao
• Similar wording Non-equilibrium physics will not explain life, and entropy has almost nothing to do with it. Last stated 13 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago Holds SWSara Walker
• Similar wording Physicists did not invent dark matter and dark energy to rescue their theories — they would much rather the answer were something cooler, and the data will not allow it. Last stated 22 Apr 2024 · 2 years ago Holds SCSean Carroll
• Similar wording Calling dark matter and dark energy invented names for physicists' ignorance gets it exactly backwards: only extraordinary precision let us see that they are missing. Last stated 5 May 2025 · a year ago Holds JLJanna Levin
• Similar wording A theory gets abandoned when the old explanation becomes visibly insufficient: special relativity made Newtonian gravity's action at a distance impossible, and that was the forcing function. Last stated 7 Apr 2026 · 5 months ago Holds MNMichael Nielsen