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Quick! Get the Flexseal.
This guy is mostly famous from poor quality history channel scifi bullshit "documentaries".
He's literally just the Ancient Aliens guy but with a PhD
quick, get the xkcd
the moment i see this guy appear on screen i know ive fucked up
imho gravitons are the key to interstellar travel. we need to find a way to aggregate and harness them
All we need to do is reverse the impulsors and route weapons systems into the storage matrix.
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.
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.
Yeah?! What's their middle name then?
3rd “Lionel” Dimension
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.
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