5/8: Dark Matter is an explanation that remains unsolved, unfound, even unbelievable: 5/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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5/8: Dark Matter is an explanation that remains unsolved, unfound, even unbelievable: 5/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Universe-Hundred-Year-Search-Matter/dp/0674248996
Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos―some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.4 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:11.2 | The search for dark matter. |
| 0:13.1 | The elephant in the universe is the new book by Govertschilling, 100 years search for dark |
| 0:18.3 | matter. |
| 0:19.3 | Our story so far, the universe doesn't hold together unless we can find something called |
| 0:24.6 | dark matter. |
| 0:26.0 | Or unless dark matter doesn't exist, then we cannot explain how the universe holds |
| 0:32.4 | together. |
| 0:33.4 | It's that puzzling. |
| 0:35.0 | So Govertsch is introduced us to the reasoning of what this particle might look like. |
| 0:41.8 | They call it a whim, weakly interacting, massive particle. |
| 0:46.1 | Wim. |
| 0:47.1 | However, the searches continue and we're going to go to one of those searches. |
| 0:51.9 | But before we go there, Govertsch surprises in his explication to introduce a chapter |
| 0:58.2 | about a heretic. |
| 0:59.9 | The man's name is Milgram, and he and his colleagues are using Newtonian physics to explain |
| 1:07.6 | what we observe in the heavens. |
| 1:10.9 | This is the part that I loved completely because this is not contrary. |
| 1:16.5 | This is what about and what I take is there are some cosmologists who accept the contraireness |
| 1:26.0 | of it and some who are annoyed by it. |
| 1:28.8 | Is that correct Govertsch? |
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