Brian Keating interviews Professor Elena Aprile about the search for dark matter and her life in science (#036)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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https://chasingeinsteinfilm.com http://www.xenon1t.org Elena Aprile is UCSD’s Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UC San Diego and Professor of Physics at Columbia University. She is the founder and spokesperson of the XENON Dark Matter Experiment. Aprile is well known for her work with noble liquid detectors and for her contributions to particle astrophysics in the search for dark matter. Professor Aprile appears in the documentary CHASING EINSTEIN about the search for dark matter. Could Einstein have been wrong about the true nature of gravity? Does his general theory of relativity and the Standard Model need an update? Unprecedented advances in experimental particle physics, astronomy and cosmology are uncovering mysteries of cosmic consequence. Among the most challenging is the realization that 80% of the universe consists of something unknown that exerts galactic forces pulling the universe apart. The search for Dark Matter extends from the worlds most powerful particle accelerators to the most sensitive telescopes, to deep under the earth. Nobel worthy discoveries await. Scientists at UC San Diego are at the epicenter of the search for Dark Matter leading efforts to build the next generation of instruments and experiments to uncover its secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.
0:05.0	Five, four, three, two, one. Hold on. production of UC San Diego's Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination and it's a real
0:25.6	treat to have one of my heroes, my heroines, however you want to say it, in physics and not only
0:30.8	a physicist. We have a lot of physicist on this show, but an
0:33.9	experimental physicist. And you may be one of the first, if not the first, honest
0:38.2	to goodness, experimentalists, who has come on this program. So thank you, Eleanor.
0:43.1	It's a real treat to have you here.
0:45.8	Such nice words, yes.
0:47.4	That made me happy.
0:48.8	I'm glad you make a lot of people happy.
0:50.4	So think about me as a woman and an experimentalist. Yes, I like to do things with my own hands. Yes, absolutely and it's wonderful to have you here. I want to give a brief introduction for the few people out there who may not know you. You were born next week in the time that I won't
1:05.1	mention, but your birthday is March 12th, which is only two days before Einstein's
1:10.0	birthday, so that's wonderful. And unfortunately Stephen Hawking's date of being deceased was
1:14.9	March 14th I believe and she is an Italian American particle physicist
1:18.7	she's been a professor at Columbia University since 1986. She's the founder and
1:23.2	spokesperson of the Xenon Dark Matter Experiment, which is a major
1:27.2	component of our conversation today. She's known for her work with noble gas,
1:32.2	noble liquid detectors, and our contributions
1:35.0	to particle astrophysics, in particular the search for dark matter, which was the subject
1:39.9	of your visit or your talk that you gave to the public as part of the Arthur C Clark Center for Human
1:44.8	Imagination.
1:45.8	We screened a film that you're in, so you're not only a wonderfully accomplished physicist,
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