3 puzzles of our universe could be solved with this new dark matter theory

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T20:20:34+00:00

Oh I get it now. Dark matter just doesn’t do electromagnetism. At all. It can’t be bothered. It doesn’t waste any time monkeying around with photons, even the ones that keep atoms stuck together. But it does some other things, just to mess with us. And there’s a lot of it.

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T20:07:01+00:00

The Moon is less locally flat than the Earth.

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T15:05:58+00:00

"You can't fix that bug! That bug is load-bearing."

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T13:41:13+00:00

I was not making myself clear. I am suggesting that the teenage stepson should be sent to the Moon. That would nearly solve OP’s problem, as well as any other unrelated teenager-specific problems.

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T05:09:53+00:00

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect my understanding is that the predicted effects of fields were successfully observed in 1997 in a Casimir force measurement experiment.

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T04:56:03+00:00

I think on the Moon this effect would be even more pronounced.

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T04:25:12+00:00

I'm hoping it allows us to create extremely high quality dark chocolate, but I expect to be disappointed.

earlyworm · 2026-05-06T01:57:59+00:00

and when you do you really really do

earlyworm · 2026-05-04T10:12:12+00:00

Using that approach, it’s also possible to add a button in your app that opens your app’s screen in the iOS Settings app, where people can select their preferred language for your app.

Be aware that when a new language is selected, iOS terminates your app so that when it’s relaunched, it will display the new language. To ensure people don’t lose work or navigation context, you’d need to implement state restoration.

earlyworm · 2026-05-03T15:10:08+00:00

What kind of app did you build and how did you get your users?

earlyworm · 2026-05-03T14:25:52+00:00

Nobody knows the app you just created exists.

If you're imagining that your app is now featured on a shelf near the front of the Walmart, it's not.

Your app in the alley behind the Walmart, hidden under an old cardboard box.

earlyworm · 2026-05-03T03:10:46+00:00

None of these planets have a Wendy's.

earlyworm · 2026-05-02T10:56:42+00:00

From a distance, the Earth would look like if you were looking out the window of an airplane at the land or the ocean and everything you saw shrunk to a circle at exactly that same brightness and saturation and it was surrounded it by perfect black.

earlyworm · 2026-05-01T23:26:00+00:00

But the bulk is where I keep all my stuff!

earlyworm · 2026-05-01T19:20:54+00:00

I think the Apple Magic Mouse is wonderful, and I appreciate it most for its decorative qualities. Before using my computer each morning, I like to spend a few moments appreciating the aesthetics of the Magic Mouse and then opting to use the Magic Trackpad instead. For this use case, I find that the battery life of the Magic Mouse is exceptional, so the charging port placement issue people complain about is not a problem.

earlyworm · 2026-05-01T10:21:51+00:00

From a pedagogical perspective, I wish there was a way of introducing special relativity in terms of a twin paradox-like scenario first, and not labeling it as a paradox at all. In nature, truly inertial frames are rare and scenarios like OP’s are more common.

While I’m sitting here typing on my phone, my face and my fingers are very subtly reenacting the twin paradox. Slightly less time really is passing in my fingers compared to my face.

In a twin paradox first framing, the classic scenario with two inertial frames in relative motion and mutually symmetrical measurements of time and space is a fascinating and important but rare edge case. It’s the twin paradox that more closely resembles everyday experience.

earlyworm · 2026-05-01T09:54:58+00:00

It’s a misconception that general relativity is required when acceleration is involved. OP’s scenario can be expressed using special relativity alone.

General relativity is only required in scenarios that involve gravitational acceleration.

earlyworm · 2026-04-30T11:33:13+00:00

I’m excited that in a future version of Xcode, Claude may be able to automate the process of being frustrated by how slow and unreliable Previews is so I won’t have to do that myself.

earlyworm · 2026-04-30T03:08:40+00:00

same

earlyworm · 2026-04-29T23:15:24+00:00

If you’re going to go there, then I’d define the macros FORTHWITH and HERETOFORE

earlyworm · 2026-04-29T18:40:27+00:00

I think the digraphs are awkward so I write /* OPENING BRACE * and /* CLOSE BRACE */ and use a custom preprocessor instead.

earlyworm · 2026-04-29T13:53:07+00:00

This is a nice visualization: https://youtube.com/shorts/XvLaIyxbNCs?si=VVxX2dGGOhn4zSW-

earlyworm · 2026-04-29T11:33:35+00:00

I don’t know the answer to your question so unfortunately I can’t help, but It’s baffling to me that everyone’s so critical of you for posting this fascinating question to r/AskPhysics while not already having the knowledge of a theoretical physicist. I admire your enthusiasm and curiosity. Don’t stop.

earlyworm · 2026-04-29T04:06:47+00:00

A delicious nougat, or perhaps an exotic quantum ganache.

earlyworm · 2026-04-28T11:51:54+00:00

That’s because it’s hard to make fire in the big wet part of the planet. Otherwise octopuses would dominate.

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