These Theories Are So Disturbing, Scientists Refuse To Publish Them

In 1919, Albert Einstein held a paper on a hidden fifth dimension for two years before letting it be published. In 1935, Arthur Eddington mocked Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's collapsing stars in front of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1964 a journal rejected Peter Higgs's paper as "of no obvious relevance to physics." What are the last three ideas on this list that no one would put on paper? Ten real theories that were delayed, refused, or locked away, told over three hours for listening at any pace, including drifting off. Settle in and let this slow walk through the ideas science held back keep you company tonight. Subscribe to Midnight Theorems if you like the long way through the strangest serious ideas in physics. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:32 Number Ten A Hidden Fifth Dimension 21:18 Number Nine The Day Without Yesterday 39:44 Number Eight The Star That Cannot Stop Falling 59:10 Number Seven The Weight You Borrow From Empty Space 1:16:17 Number Six The Particle That Is Its Own Opposite 1:36:08 Number Five The Seed That Could Turn Matter Strange 1:55:39 Number Four The Calculation They Locked Away 2:15:51 Number Three The Number on Your Ticket 2:33:54 Number Two The Spark at the Door Handle 2:50:52 Number One The Blue Mug in the Cupboard SOURCES On the Origin of Kaluza's Idea of Unification (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0406009 New Test of the Gravitational 1/r² Law at Separations down to 52 μm (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11761 Georges Lemaître (MacTutor History of Mathematics) — https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk... Who discovered the expanding universe? (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.2281 On Continued Gravitational Contraction (Physical Review, 1939) — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/193... Higgs owes his Nobel to an editor and a biologist (Science News) — https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/cont... Ettore Majorana: genius and mystery (CERN Courier) — https://cerncourier.com/a/ettore-majo... Search for Majorana Neutrinos with the Complete KamLAND-Zen Dataset (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11438 Review of Speculative "Disaster Scenarios" at RHIC (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9910333v3 A Critical Look at Risk Assessments for Global Catastrophes (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0009204 Manhattan Project astrophysics (Physics Today) — https://physicstoday.aip.org/features... The Doomsday Argument: a Literature Review (Bostrom) — https://anthropic-principle.com/prepr... One-electron universe (Wikipedia) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-ele... Rethinking Superdeterminism (Frontiers in Physics, 2020) — https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/... Cosmic Bell Test Using Random Measurement Settings from High-Redshift Quasars (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05966 — Disclaimer: Midnight Theorems explores open questions at the edge of physics, mathematics, and consciousness, for curiosity and rest. The physicists, experiments, and published ideas named in each video are real, but many of those ideas are unproven hypotheses or minority views, and the narration says which is which. Nothing here is settled science unless it is described that way, and none of it is news or advice. Listen at your own discretion. IMAGE SOURCES Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org #UnpublishedPhysics #Superdeterminism