This is a new way to think about dark matter…

[davidmathes]

That's the elephants nuts Neil careful!!!

[Protectourbioshpere]

This is why I love physics. Every time I sit through a physics lecture I leave astonished.

[adamdonze]

Damn Neil. I make stuff up just to avoid dealing with the laundry, and here you go, painting my procrastination mechanism into universe scales =D

[STIC]

"And here I can describe this part of it"

Elephant: "Sir, can you please let go off my balls?"

[jeremyhogue]

this man has a way to pull out my soul of my body for a moment...

[maxcovfefe]

Just woke up, popped a video on to get my brain working for the day, and gravity from other universes... what the what?? What a mind-full to wake up to!! Hello new day!!

[oeldave]

Every Neil deGrasse shorts has gold comment section 😭🤣

[kjamison]

In an alternate universe, I am successful and I am loved.

[scottd.]

Exactly what I've been saying.

Imagine the universe as a flat plane like a big sheet, put another big sheet above that one and place a bowling ball on it, the sheet pushes down on ours and we see the folding of space but we never see the bowling ball.

[blaqice]

Way before I'd say 6th grade, I knew there was such a thing called dark matter and black energy. For some strange intellect in me, said there's more to space than the people around you know about. Whenever I said something about it, I was told to sit in the corner of the classroom and think of a way to apologize to the nonsense I had said. Even in high school, everyone in my science class laughed at me when I said the Sun rotated and moved in space with the solar system rotating around it.

So, after high school, I wrote a sci-fi book about a character made up of black energy and dark matter. I took some of the laws of space and time and created my own worlds in this book. And at most times, I wish I could leave earth and go there.

Anyway, stay frosty and never stop learning!

[Martin-kncn]

It actually makes perfect sense. It even explains why she can’t find dark matter. It’s because it is not there, not in our universe at least

[theplayablecatalog]

But how though? Gravity is just the curvature of space time, how can it spill out into an area where there is no space or time.

[roaminromer]

God I love the way he explains stuff. He's got a talent that i believe is genius level.

[guitardan]

I’m not a scientist, but I’ve thought along these lines for years and this is the first time I’ve heard a scientist say this thank you, Neil

[robinandersson]

been watching some videos about what a 3d object would look like for a 2d creature which is what made me think this but couldnt it just be matter in a higher dimension that we just cant see because we are 3d creatures?

[chrisozouf]

"if" a blind man approached an elephant, it probably wouldn't go very well

[yecto]

So we can use gravity to communicate to our parallel universe

[jellytheentity]

This has been what I have been thinking, I would love to hear more about this idea in a StarTalk episode

[salvadordolly]

Just keep one thing in mind this man is fully vaccinated. LOL 🤣

[davetoms]

I thought that was disproven by measuring gravity on larger scales and confirming it consistently decreased in strength according to the distance squared rule, meaning none could spill out into any other dimension. Whereas if it decreased any faster than the distance squared then that increase would be the amount "spilling out" into other dimensions.