#392 The Big Bang, Seconds After - Dr. Dan Hooper
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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The Big Bang, Seconds After - Dr. Dan Hooper
Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogelzang, and this is show number 392. Today's show is brought to you by MintMobile.
As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Inside Science series, we're speaking today to Dr. Dan Hooper. Dr. Dan Hooper, senior scientist and head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Dr. Hooper is with us today to discuss the discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. Knowing full well that there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang.
Dan Hooper tells us how we are using the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments to re-create the conditions of the Big Bang and to address mysteries such as how our universe came to contain so much matter and so little antimatter. Could these tools enable us to discover the nature of dark matter and how it was formed in our universe's first moments? Can we lift the veil on the era of cosmic inflation, which led to the creation of our world as we know it, and the sheer advances of the science of cosmology over the last century?
Of course, that was our guest today, scientist, cosmologist, and best selling author Dan Hooper, reading from his new book, At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vocal Zank and this is episode |
| 0:08.6 | number 392. Today's show is brought to you by Mint Mobile. |
| 0:14.0 | As part of our Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Series, we're speaking today with Dr. Dan Hooper. |
| 0:24.0 | Dr. Dan Hooper is a senior scientist and head of the theoretical astrophysics group |
| 0:29.2 | at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Dr. Hooper is with us today to discuss the discoveries about how our cosmos evolved |
| 0:38.0 | over the past 13.8 billion years, knowing full well that there remains a critical gap in our |
| 0:45.5 | knowledge, we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds |
| 0:50.4 | after the Big Bang. Dan Hooper tells us how we are using the Large Hadron Collider |
| 0:56.3 | and other experiments to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang and to address mysteries such as |
| 1:02.3 | how our universe came to contain so much matter and so little |
| 1:06.7 | antimatter. Could these tools enable us to discover the nature of dark matter and how it was formed in our universe's first moments. |
| 1:14.7 | Can we lift the veil on the era of cosmic inflation which led to the creation of our |
| 1:20.1 | world as we know it and the sheer advances of the science of |
| 1:24.2 | cosmology over the last half century. By any reasonable standard the science of |
| 1:29.4 | cosmology has had a spectacular century. 100 years ago, we knew nothing about our universe's distant past, |
| 1:35.0 | and certainly nothing about its origin. |
| 1:38.0 | But building upon Einstein's vision of space and time, |
| 1:41.0 | astronomers discovered that our universe is expanding, and by the |
| 1:44.6 | late 60s it was clear that our universe had emerged over billions of years from a hot-dense |
| 1:49.7 | state that we call the Big Bang. |
| 1:52.1 | For the first time, human beings have begun to |
| 1:53.8 | understand how their universe began. Since then cosmologists have steadily |
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