Cumrun Vafa: Dark Dimensions That Unify Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The dark matter, which is this bread and butter of this mysterious mass in the universe, |
| 0:04.9 | and the dark energy which is pervading everywhere and we have no idea, we think are related. |
| 0:10.3 | Dark dimensions, F theory, and what lies beyond space time. |
| 0:16.3 | Kamran Vafa, professor of science at Harvard, whose doctoral advisor was Edward Witten, proposes |
| 0:22.2 | a revolutionary idea that could either unify or break decades of physics research. |
| 0:29.1 | His theory suggests dark matter and dark energy, comprising 95% of our universe, might be |
| 0:35.7 | manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Come with me into the |
| 0:41.1 | heart of the universe, both observable and not, where the nature of the cosmos hangs in the balance. |
| 0:51.9 | Professor Vafa, welcome. Thank you. |
| 0:56.1 | I want to know what got you into math and physics. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, when I was a child from the very elementary schools, I remember loving math. |
| 1:06.3 | So math was always part of my excitement about intellectual excitement. |
| 1:13.4 | But physics kind of gradually got into it in the sense that I started looking around things like looking at the moon and I remember I was second grade when I was wondering why the moon isn't falling down |
| 1:18.3 | on the earth and what I found amazing was that it didn't bother people around me that fact that |
| 1:25.5 | there's something up there like like, kind of suspended. |
| 1:29.1 | And it is kind of like, I didn't know, I don't know how to put my finger on. |
| 1:33.5 | It didn't seem to intellectually bother them to want to know the answer to it. |
| 1:37.7 | So these kind of things from the beginning kind of attracted me to nature and understanding |
| 1:42.8 | how it works. |
| 1:43.5 | That gradually became my excitement about physics as a whole |
| 1:46.8 | and fundamental physics later on. |
| 1:49.0 | And luckily for me, my interest in math and physics |
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