this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
26 points (88.2% liked)
Astronomy
4758 readers
42 users here now
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That article has a number of problems.
Gravity isn't a force. It's the curvature of spacetime, the bending itself. You can't compare it to the three other forces.
That means it isn't falsifiable. It's same as believing in god - it's faith and not a scientific theory. Also the article says:
How should physicists do that when by definition a bulk can't be detected? In the later parts it is claimed that the bulk-brane-interactions somehow influences gravity and that this influence could be detected. I call bullshit.
We know that our understanding of gravity is flawed because we can't unify it with the theory of quantum mechanics. But there must be a link between them.
Objects with a mass above 2.5 solar masses are likely light weight black holes. Source
The whole article consists only of a lot of 'could be', nothing tangible and bullshit.
I do agree but, it is very common in academia to disagree with this, to believe that the geometric representation of gravity is merely a clever trick to approximate gravitational effects, but that in reality it is caused by a force-carrying particle just like any other force, a graviton, and spacetime is flat. That was the basis of String Theory and some other views. I don't know why this view is so popular but it is.