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Piotr Kosek on Technology — predictions scored

Piotr Kosek on Technology — predictions scored

290 tracked claims · Accuracy: 87%

Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 22.02.2026
! Misleading
"The Einstein-Rosen bridge is a correct and known solution to the equations of general relativity, meaning it follows from this theory. Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen discovered it in 1935, and they themselves interpreted this mathematical construct as a physical connection between two separate universes. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 22.02.2026
! Misleading
"Their key breakthrough idea is to do this using so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges, which is this moving forward and backward in time. What is an Einstein-Rosen bridge? Well, simply put, it's the scientific name for a spacetime tunnel, one you often know from various science fiction films. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 22.02.2026
True
"In quantum theory, strict rules of information conservation apply. If you know the exact state of a quantum system at this moment, then the Schrödinger equation, the absolute foundation of quantum mechanics, allows you to precisely calculate what happened before and what will happen in the future, i.e., how a particle will behave, for example. From the Schrödinger equation, it follows that information in the universe cannot simply disappear. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 22.02.2026
True
"The mathematical structure would not end in a singularity but would open up to a second, identical side. [...] Structurally, the solution features a region interpreted as a white hole, which is a time-reversed solution of Einstein's field equations with respect to a black hole. A white hole is a black hole running backwards in time. Just as black holes swallow things irretrievably, so also do white holes spit them out. [...] General Relativity is time symmetric. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 20.02.2026
True
"Trained US Navy pilots have reported encounters with mysterious objects now called UAP, such as the phenomenon involved in the 2004 USS Nimitz incident. These objects or phenomena, as it is difficult to determine what they are, ignored basic laws of aerodynamics, accelerating to speeds that would destroy known materials without visible propulsion. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 20.02.2026
! Misleading
"SHGb02+14a is a narrowband radio signal candidate detected by the distributed computing project SETI@home in February 2003... at a frequency of roughly 1420 megahertz—the principal emission line of neutral hydrogen, a frequency of interest in SETI searches... However, follow-up observations and expert analysis... indicated it did not meet criteria for a confirmed artificial signal... astronomers like Paul Horowitz and Werthimer emphasized that SHGb02+14a was likely terrestrial interference... rather than an extraterrestrial transmission... "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 20.02.2026
True
"In 1977, the great Big Ear radio telescope registered a powerful narrow-band impulse from the depths of space lasting exactly 72 seconds. So regular and strong that the potential for an intelligent message trapped within it earned the name of the Wow signal. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 20.02.2026
True
"However, neither the Wow signal nor radio anomalies have ever been repeated in a way that allows falsification, and aviation reports, although confirmed by governments as unresolved phenomena, do not give us tangible evidence. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.02.2026
True
"with the development of technology, we are getting increasingly destructive and increasingly capable of large-scale destruction tools. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"Photons emitted by the first stars as visible or ultraviolet light, traveling through the expanding universe, were stretched into the infrared range. And therein lies Webb's genius. Our eyes, and even the Hubble telescope, cannot see this infrared. Cosmic dust and the expansion of the universe have hidden these primordial objects from us for centuries. Webb, with its infrared detectors, simply lifts this veil. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"And it follows that the average density of a supermassive black hole, one with a mass of billions of suns, can be comparable to the density of water, or even air. It's hard to imagine that matter with the density of water would form a hard, impenetrable shell on which everything breaks. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"However, if we take into account the fact that black holes evaporate and will eventually disappear, even if it takes 10 to the power of 100 years, then their horizon is not eternal, it is temporary, only this time is simply long. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"For us, external observers, this process never ends. The battery never crosses the horizon, because time slows down, it freezes just above it, slowing down infinitely. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"In astrophysics, a gravastar (a blend word of "gravitational vacuum star") is an object hypothesized in a 2001 paper by Pawel O. Mazur and Emil Mottola as an alternative to the black hole theory. It has the usual black hole metric outside of the horizon, but de Sitter metric inside. On the horizon there is an ultra-thin, incredibly tight shell of entirely new, unique exotic matter. This solution to the Einstein equations is stable and has no singularities. Instead, a gravastar is filled either with dark energy or with vacuum energy. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"If we placed a camera on the surface of a collapsing star, for it the process would last a finite and very short moment. Such an observer would cross the horizon and reach the singularity in a finite proper time. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"In the strict mathematical sense, a black hole in general relativity possesses an eternal event horizon. A horizon that lasts forever, always and forever. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
! Misleading
"For a gravastar to exist, there would have to be some spontaneous phase transition of matter at low densities, and we have never observed this anywhere in any laboratories. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
Pending
"During the collapse of a star, matter becomes extremely hot and dense. Before the horizon closes, quantum processes may cause the star to radiate its mass so quickly that the horizon never forms. The star evaporates before becoming a black hole. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"If matter were to fall onto the hard surface of a Gravastar, we should see powerful flashes of energy at the moment of impact. Telescopes, however, see nothing of the sort. Matter seems to disappear into the blackness without any impact, yes, and flash. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"After landing in Utah, technical problems began on Earth. It turned out that we could not open the main container. Two of the 35 fastening screws got stuck for good. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"The entire operation took place in a special glove box filled with nitrogen to avoid contact of the samples with terrestrial oxygen and moisture. Scientists simply did not want to contaminate the samples. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"The Ozaj Risrex mission sent evidence to Earth that the components we are made of could have originated billions of kilometers away, even before Earth cooled. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"When the arm touched Bennu, it encountered no resistance. It plunged into the asteroid to a depth of almost half a meter like soft foam. If the programmed reverse thrusters had not fired, the probe could have been sucked in and trapped inside the asteroid. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
? Unverifiable
"Engineers had to design and manufacture completely new tools from special non-magnetic surgical steel, test them, and then operate with them in thick gloves through glass. It took over three months, but it was worth it. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"The key to survival was a thermal shield made of Pika material. This is an acronym for Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator. The operation of such a shield is based on the phenomenon of ablation. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"NASA chose this target not by chance. Bennu is so old that its material has not undergone significant geological changes, such as those that occur on planets. It is a primordial soup of matter frozen in time, from which Earth also originated. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"This substance forms layers on ice grains and minerals within the sample. It is rich in nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon. It is a complex molecular structure, a kind of cosmic glue that bound the asteroid's loose debris together. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"Generally, genetically modified organisms are organisms, for example plants, animals or microorganisms, which can be said to have been created by humans as a result of changes within their genome. In the case of traditional transgenesis, this involved simply transferring foreign genes. And the key here is that these are organisms that would not have had a chance to arise on their own. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"Regarding the potato, an interesting example that was used in engineering was the creation of a potato that produces casein, i.e., milk protein, in its tubers, which is a very interesting solution from a dietary point of view. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"Another interesting change that was attempted to be introduced was, for example, the Arctica strawberry variety. We all probably like strawberries, but unfortunately, strawberries are not particularly frost-resistant, although there are already year-round varieties, so the gene encoding AFP, or antifreeze protein, from an arctic fish was transferred to this strawberry. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"This gene codes for a protein that causes, when a larva of some pest eats such a plant with this protein, it leads to the perforation of the digestive system of such an animal. And it simply dies. This means we no longer need to use pesticides, because the plant itself is able to defend itself against such an invasion. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.01.2026
True
"India has been implementing its grand three-stage energy plan for years, which is intended to culminate in thorium reactors. They are now in the second phase, but it is progressing quite slowly. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 07.01.2026
· Unverified
"W zależności od tego, jak zgramy w czasie impulsy lasera z nadchodzącą falą grawitacyjną, możemy albo wstrzyknąć energię do fali grawitacyjnej, albo ją z niej wyciągnąć. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 07.01.2026
True
"A new article has been published in Physical Review Letters, which in the world of physics is the equivalent of the Champions League. It is not a niche preprint, but a serious theoretical proposal. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 07.01.2026
True
"In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction. It is a quantum of gravitational wave energy. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 05.01.2026
! Misleading
"And I'll tell you what, these are things that exist, you know, in the sense that you can use such counters. 10-millimeter caseless ammunition was used there, meaning you don't have a casing, but the incendiary charge is built into the projectile itself, which means you can carry more because they are smaller, lighter, and you can pack more into such a magazine. And there is, for example, my dear Heckler and Koch. Did I write it down? I think I didn't write down the model in the end, but there is such a rifle currently that works with such ammunition. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 05.01.2026
True
"Well, today even such constructions are appearing. They cannot be as big as Gundams or something, because we would need some unimaginable materials that would be very strong. Due to the fact that, you know, when you increase something, its size, its surface area grows. The mass also grows very quickly, and in fact, the strength of the components starts to be too small to have such a, you know, Gundam or a big one, I don't know what from your time, from those big robots, there was G-Force, they had those from your time, from my time it was Gigant ze Stali in the 30s, which Gigant ze Stali could walk, it would have to be made of quite interesting materials. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 05.01.2026
True
"This casing, it flies, it flies, this casing is a small piece of the projectile. You don't need, you don't need to have any casing, so you don't need to have a mechanism that, for example, removes these casings differently, because this is the entire projectile that flies, but a part is empty. Because there was an explosive charge that caused the projectile to fly out, as if pressed around from something. This is quite a strange construction if you look, for example, at this very picture on Wikipedia. There is such a caseless projectile, and in this way, the point was that such a magazine could simply offer more projectiles for such a marine. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.06.2026
Pending
"since '79, the disintegration of this satellite has been observed, meaning some elements are detaching from it, and as many as 51 such elements that have detached from this satellite are actually tracked by radar. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 03.06.2026
? Unverifiable
"This work successfully passed a rigorous scientific peer-review process and was officially published in a respected industry journal. "
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