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AMA | June 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Is There a Dark Matter Universe?

If you were to witness a tremendously unlikely event, and had no reason to doubt your mental faculties, would you tell others about this experience at the risk of sounding delusional? Well, i think that if it were a sufficiently unlikely event, it would be a much more likely explanation that i miss experienced something right. This is much higher credence that i misunderstood what was happening than literally the cat going through a wall. So i would go to get a check up or something like that. I would not just hide and keep it to myself. You know, if it's reproducible, that's an entirely different question, right? Because if something unlikely happens once, that's one thing. If

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