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Since @newscientist has put postquantum gravity in the spotlight this week, I've pushed out part II of my status update on the theory along with a candid assesment of its strengths and the challenges it faces. superposer.substack.com/p/postquantu...
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Postquantum gravity: a status update (part II)
I previously covered some recent progress on the postquantum theory of gravity, in this post I’ll cover its strengths and the challenges it faces, and also comment on some criticisms in this week’s...
![[scene is a press conference at CERN. The head of CERN, Mark Thompson, and Ursula Bassler, a high-up director at CERN, are speaking to journalists in a press conference room with a screen behind them]
THOMPSON:
Ladies and gentlemen, We are honoured to announce
...we've found dark matter.
[audience]:
APPLAUSE
WHOO
THOMPSON:
Our observations have conclusively proved that the mysterious matter prevalent throughout the entire universe...
[He pauses, removes his glasses, closes his eyes, rubs them as if tired]
...Is Biscoff.
JOURNALIST:
What
THOMPSON:
It's Biscoff.
[Show behind them a photo of deep space, with black blobs throughout it and the Biscoff logo in all of them]
THOMPSON:
Yeah. We were quite annoyed to be honest.
URSULA BASSLER:
According to the data, 95% of the Universe is in fact a delicious collab with the Lotus Bakeries corporation.
[Ursula also looking despondent now, rubbing her head with her hand, looking down, ashamed]
And unfortunately for the scientific community, this is also strong evidence for the existence...
...of The Great Influencer.
[On the screen behind them, an image has appeared of a typical annoying food influencer, with a YouTube thumbnail style image of the blonde, mistachioed, young influencer making a dumb "OOOH" face and the title: 'THE VOID x BISCOFF!?!]
URSULA BASSLER:
It seems that everything was created by a cosmic god who just had some kind of viral recipe idea which "You just gotta try guys."
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[silent pause as the scientists look despondently at the image on screen of the Cosmic Influencer]
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THOMPSON [Looking away in disgust]:
Honestly I'm so pissed off.
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