About once a year, I retweet this fun question about whether compounding gravitational lensing has unaccounted-for effects on theories of dark matter. I asked @AnthropicAI's ML (Claude) to evaluate the idea. This was the conclusion:

(Orig hypothesis: )
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Claude: "Your summary is accurate, and I think you've identified a compelling correlation between the observed cosmic web structure and your hypothesis about compounding lensing effects. Let me analyze the implications:

This morning I think I realized something pretty cool about #astronomy...

Due to gravitational lensing, as you look past stars, and then past the stars just-almost-behind-them, and keep looking deeper into spacetime...

#Jameswebb #Space #NASA #nerd #amateurScience
1/x 🤓🪐🧵 The string of nearly-aligned stars is not only artificially bent, but the curvature effect should increase as you look deeper - because each curve is exacerbated by the next. It's a "butterfly effect" of a tiny shift that will dramatically affect an object far in spacetime...
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