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  • That article has a number of problems.

    The force of gravity is weak. And not just a little bit weak. It’s so much weaker than the other three fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—that it’s almost impossible to provide analogies.

    Gravity isn’t a force. It’s the curvature of spacetime, the bending itself. You can’t compare it to the three other forces.

    We can’t see the bulk, touch the bulk, experience the bulk, or otherwise interact with the bulk because our entire universe—all the particles and forces of nature—are restricted to life on the brane.

    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:

    Physicists just need some way to pierce the veil of the brane and peer into the realm of the bulk.

    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.

    If our running knowledge of gravity is mistaken

    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.

    In 2019, the LIGO detector (…) measured gravitational waves emanating from the merger of a black hole with … something else. The black hole had a mass of around 23 solar masses. Its companion had a mass of only 2.6 solar masses. That’s far too small to be a black hole … but also a little too big to be a neutron star.

    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.





  • Do something before sleep that will make you sleepy, e. g. read a boring book. Sometimes we only need that little push.

    Also go for a walk. Just an hour. Fresh air, natural light and a little exercise (walk slowly!) helps a lot. Also sit on a bench for a while if there’s one. And when you want to get up stay put and sit for another while.
    Watch the nature/city/whatever. Think about how what you see came to be.
    Do not check your watch or phone. Don’t even take them with you! You want to distance yourself from what keeps your mind busy.
    Do not let something or someone pester you or push you to speed up. Go slowly because you want to go slowly without a care in the world.

    Always keep one of these small puzzle books (with sudokus, crosswords and stuff) with you. Whenever you think about one of the things that bother you, shout loudly “STOP!” and then try solving one of the puzzles for 10 or so seconds. The goal here is not to actually solve the puzzles but to stop you from pondering endlessly and steer your mind into a different direction. Always thinking the same is the reason you are fucked up!

    When you feel you mind is overloaded during work grab a bunch of paper to look busy and walk down/up one staircase and then walk up/down the other one to complete the loop. Do this to distract your mind so it can reload.

    Avoid stuff that upsets you like watching the news. You want to calm your mind and not send it into overdrive. If you have a hobby that can completely occupy your mind do that!

    Do not expect this to cure you. It’s only a part on the way to recovery. Only a real therapy can cure you.