We live in a world of non interacting phenomenon, right? And we exploit that fact. We are imagining other families of particles out there that interact with us less than even the stuff that we don't interact with as part of our own family. That's the that's the over under on what dark matter is. Now, my favorite explanation is that there's a parallel universe that has more gravity than we do, and it's spilling into our universe,. affecting the movement of our objects. I think it's a trimptike of three up, people as far away as they can be, carnage in the middle.
What is string theory? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Jordan Klepper answer fan questions about solar system formation, dark matter, and the expansion of spacetime. What would travelling at the speed of light look like?
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