Dr. Brian Keating

How can you explain it?

Is it a new particle?

Is it new matter like Neptune?

Or is it a new law of gravity like Mercury?

Einstein postulated.

And we're trying to find out the answer to those two questions, which one is right.

I mean nothing should be claimed to be impossible.

But what we're talking about in that case is like called manipulation of space-time.

And we do know that there are vast disturbances in space and time that are caused by actual forms of matter and energy that we know about.

And these have been tested to exquisite precision.

The challenge is that gravity is the weakest of all the forces.

So when I talked about dark matter, I didn't tell you that the worst scenario that scientists could find themselves in is if dark matter only interacts gravitationally.

In other words, if it's only detectable via the fact that if you have enough of it, it will change the orbit of stars, for example.

then you need a tremendous amount of it.

And there's no detection system that we know about that could actually get enough in your laboratory.

Think about it.

You need something like the mass of the sun to change or the mass of Neptune, you know, to change the orbit of another planet.

So to have a detection, you would need something planetary size, which is – and these planets are all six to ten times bigger than the Earth.

And so you're talking about things that are beyond the realm of science fiction.

But let's just say for the sake of example, some –