Resolves as YES if there is a 90% consensus among the physics community that there exists matter outside of our 3D space (or 4D spacetime) before January 1st 2031.
Questions with the same criteria:
/RemNi/discovery-of-matter-outside-of-our (this question)
/RemNi/discovery-of-matter-outside-our-3d
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/RemNi/will-we-get-agi-before-2031
/RemNi/will-we-get-asi-before-2031
/RemNi/will-we-get-superconductors-before
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/RemNi/will-we-discover-alien-life-before
/RemNi/will-we-get-fusion-reactors-before
/RemNi/will-a-significant-ai-generated-mem
/RemNi/will-a-human-walk-on-mars-before-20-cbd9e461335b
/RemNi/will-the-dancing-plague-return-befo
/RemNi/will-a-million-humanoid-robots-have
/RemNi/full-vr-brain-computer-interface-be
/RemNi/will-ai-extend-english-before-2031
/RemNi/will-we-get-rouge-ai-before-2031
In order for this question to resolve as YES, there must be a widely accepted theory relying on the presence of matter outside of our 3D space / 4D spacetime, which explains observable phenomena in our universe. For example, gravitational interactions with this matter causing discrepancies in galaxy rotation curves or the cosmic microwave background.
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1.00It seems to be an empirical property of ordinary matter that when you measure the pairwise distances between N local bodies you can always embed them into R^3, that is you can always find N points in R^3 whose distances correspond to the distances you measured. If this property is violated by some kind of matter then I expect endless discussion on whether that qualifies as matter at all.
@mariopasquato I guess if there is a theory suggesting that this other matter shares a common origin (e.g. big bang) as what we observe in our space, then that makes it easier to qualify it as being "matter"