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Dark Matter: The Situation has Changed
Sabine Hossenfelder explains how her opinion on dark matter has shifted, weighing the evidence for and against it and the case for modified gravity. It runs through what dark matter is and why it has not been detected.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as an accessible, curious-undergraduate-level overview of dark matter and its alternatives.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Sabine Hossenfelder
- Topic
- dark matter
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Sabine is a great science (physics) communicator to the "masses", she recently did an update on dark matter. [VIDEO]
keithnz on Hacker News · 2021-05
In New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery> correct me if I’m wrong … I think you’re oversimplifying, like seeing a forest and overlooking that it’s Prototaxites, not Malus domestica. Here’s Sabine Hossenfelder’s curious-undergraduate-level history of Dark Matter theories: [VIDEO] Proper nouns include Renzo’s Rule and Baryonic Tully Fisher Relation.
tlholaday on Hacker News · 2023-02
In Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea
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