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In this video I want to tell you where I stand on the question of dark matter or modified gravity.
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As I said in my two earlier videos, we have a lot of observational evidence that we are misunderstanding something about the way the universe works.
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Either there must be a new type of matter, the so -called dark matter, or gravity works differently than Einstein taught us, and this is called modified gravity.
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If you ask an astrophysicist, they will tell you that dark matter can explain all the observations
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while modified gravity cannot
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and therefore dark matter is the better explanation for a long time i thought
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that this was a reasonable argument but i no longer think
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so before i tell you why i changed my mind i
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want you to do a little thought experiment imagine it's the 18th century
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and you're daniel bernoulli
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and you have just discovered the key equations of fluid dynamics you have tested them back and forth and they work great.
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Now you want all your colleagues to check these equations for you.
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So you send letters to them and you ask them to please repeat your experiment
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and to report back if the equations work.
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One after the other they all write back yes the equations work great and you're a genius.
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Except for the guy in Alaska who says you're an idiot.
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Now you can go and add all kinds of parameters to your equations
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and try to explain why water sometimes remains in the shape of a glass.
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But that would be entirely insane.
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What you want to do instead is to go and look for environmental parameters that explain why water sometimes behaves differently.
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Let us now come back to dark matter.
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Astrophysicists normally describe dark matter as a fluid.
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And I know that can be confusing, but a fluid can be a gas.
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Describing dark matter as a fluid works very well for the early universe
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and for the cosmic microwave background and for the galaxy clusters.
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It does not work so well for the galaxies.
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For the galaxies, modified gravity is the much simpler explanation.
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So should you go now
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and add all kinds of parameters to the equations for dark matter to make them fit the galaxies?
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I think that's as insane as trying to explain ice by adding all kinds of parameters to the equations of hydrodynamics.
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What we should do instead is look for environmental parameters that separate one behavior from the other.
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I think what the data are trying to tell us is
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that matter comes into different phases and we have to use different equations for each phase.
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The first time I came across this idea was in a 2015 paper by Bereziania and Khoury.
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They pointed out that the mathematical structure of modified gravity looks very much like the mathematical structure of a superfluid.
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So the two phases of dark matter are not, as in the case of water, a liquid and a solid, but it's a fluid and a superfluid.
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What's a superfluid?
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A superfluid is fluid that has no internal friction and that has quantum correlations that span over very long distances.
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In the case of dark matter, these correlations can span through whole galaxies.
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Now, the idea that dark matter may form a superfluid is not new.
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What is new here is that the superfluid gives rise to a force which acts on the normal matter.
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This new force is the reason why the effects of superfluid dark matter can look like modified gravity.
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If you remember what I told you earlier,
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you can use this force to calculate the relation between the velocity of a star and the distance from the galactic center.
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If you draw this on a graph,
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then the force that you get from the normal gravitational pull of the normal matter is not enough to explain the observations.
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If you now add the force that comes from the superfluid, it works nicely.
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So let me be clear that this additional force is not the gravitational pull from the superfluid.
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It's actually a new force that comes from the interaction of the superfluid with the normal matter.
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But if you want dark matter to condense to a superfluid,
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you need it to be cold and And you need a gravitational potential that is deep enough to create sufficient pressure.
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These conditions are not fulfilled in the early universe and they are not fulfilled in the galaxy clusters.
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They are fulfilled in the galaxies.
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And this explains why modified gravity sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
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Sounds good, huh?
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But it's not so simple.
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Really what I just told you is some earlier words
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and the equations to back it up are not quite there yet the biggest problem is
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that it's not very well understood under exactly which conditions dark matter forms a superfluid.
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There are also different kinds of particles that can form a superfluid, and it's not clear which of those fits the data best.
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Another problem is that it's really not well understood how fluid condenses to a superfluid in a curved spacetime.
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That's because the people who normally study superfluids don't have to think about gravity all that much.
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If they take it into account at all, it's a vertical gradient in the laboratory.
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But you can't describe galaxy formation with that.
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Can you experimentally distinguish this type of superfluid dark matter from the normal dark matter?
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I believe you can.
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This is something that I have been working on with a PhD student in the past year.
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His name is Tobias Misteler.
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Maybe I will tell you something about this some other time.
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The message that I want to get across here is
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that I think it's a mistake to regard dark matter and modified gravity as two competing theories,
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each of which has to be made to fit all of the data.
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To me the data say, the answer is a combination of both.
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這段影片共有 73 個句子、1006 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 6:13。 說話人語速自然,每分鐘約 162 個詞,接近日常對話。 只有 80% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞,詞彙難度較高。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個不太常見的單詞,附發音和釋義:
- equation /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/ (名詞) — 方程式, 方程. The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical).
- galaxy /ˈɡæl.ək.si/ (名詞) — 恆星系 /恆星系, 群星. Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are…
- modify /ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/ (動詞) — 修改. To change part of.
- fluid /ˈflu.ɪd/ (名詞) — 流體 /流體, 液體 /液體. Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
- parameter /pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ/ (名詞) — 引數 /引數, 參量 /參量. A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- fulfill /fʊlˈfɪl/ (動詞) — 履行. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
- explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ (名詞) — 解釋 /解釋, 說明 /說明. The act or process of explaining.
- insane /ɪnˈseɪn/ (形容詞) — 精神失常, 精神錯亂 /精神錯亂. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
- experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ (名詞) — 實驗 /實驗. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
- spin /spɪn/ (動詞) — 轉動 /轉動, 自轉 /自轉. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/ (名詞) — 觀察 /觀察. The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)
- cluster /ˈklʌstɚ/ (名詞) — 串, 叢 /叢. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ (名詞) — 相關性. A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
- compete /kəmˈpiːt/ (動詞) — 競爭 /競爭, 高下. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
- discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (動詞) — 發現 /發現, 發覺 /發覺. To find or learn something for the first time.
影片中出現的短語動詞
- come from (動詞) — 來自 /來自. To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
- look for (動詞) — 找, 找尋 /找尋. To seek.
- act on (動詞) — 採取行動 /採取行動. To act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced.
- point out (動詞) — 指, 指出. To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 6 次縮略和弱讀形式,例如 you're, can't, doesn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: equation /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, sufficient /səˈfɪʃənt/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: parameter /pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片,不要開口,記下不認識的單詞。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀,熟練之後再回到正常速度。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比,特別注意 equation, galaxy, modify 這類單詞。
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