#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
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4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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(00:00) - Introduction
(11:11) - Dark matter
(30:02) - Extinction events
(41:02) - Particle physics
(56:16) - Physics vs mathematics
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Lisa Rondal, |
| 0:03.2 | a theoretical physicist and cosmologists at Harvard. |
| 0:06.3 | Her work involves improving our understanding of particle physics, |
| 0:10.0 | super symmetry, bariogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. |
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