John Mather

6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 30, 2023 by John Mather · across every show →

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Oct 30, 2023

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Mather: Decades of laboratory searches yielded no promising dark matter candidates

“We have been hunting in laboratories for decades, and darn it, there isn't a single thing that's ever said this is a good promising candidate.”

John Mather Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 12:38 The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Oct 30, 2023

Opinion

Mather: Extraterrestrial life is likely frequent but mostly elementary

“I think the answer is, no, we're not alone, and I think life will occur quite frequently, but it will mostly be rather elementary.”

John Mather Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 6:18 The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Oct 30, 2023

Opinion

Mather: Unexplained phenomena on Earth are unlikely to be space aliens

“Probably we're not gonna find the neighbors. Similarly, that we're not in danger from the neighbors. So, yeah, maybe we got lots of unexplained things here on planet Earth, but it's not very likely to be space aliens.”

John Mather Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 6:52 The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Oct 30, 2023 neutral

Assertion Supported

Mather: Small Earth-like exoplanets analyzed so far lack detectable atmospheres

“And so, the technique works, and now we're just now busy analyzing the small stars that have potentially small Earth-like planets, and I can't say that we're really surprised, but so far the little ones do not have atmospheres that we can tell.”

John Mather Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 9:34 The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Oct 30, 2023

Assertion Supported

Mather: Scientists have not detected Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars

“So far, we don't know of any like that, because it's a really hard observational problem.”

John Mather Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 8:16 The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Oct 30, 2023 positive

Assertion Supported

Mather: Gravitational Lensing Enables JWST to See Early Galaxies

“And nature has given, given us lenses, extra lenses in space to magnify, ah, the more distant universe. And this is something that Einstein predicted, and we never thought it would be useful, ah, except in the most abstract way, but So now what we see is somet…”

John Mather Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 3:02 The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

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