Dan Green Physics is NOT In Crisis! (#296)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 5 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Is fundamental physics in trouble as past guests like Lee Smolin, Lawrence Krauss, Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Neil Turok have suggested? Dan Green is a theoretical physicist focusing on the intersection of cosmology and high energy particle physics. He's a professor at UC San Diego, where Into The Impossible's new studio is located. Dan discusses his career progression, his research, and some of the most significant, though possibly underappreciated, results in fundamental physics for the last several decades. Enjoy a great discussion and learn some new physics in our very first in-person episode at our new studio! https://twitter.com/nu_phases 00:00 Introduction 02:01 Dan's Origin Story 04:16 Theory vs Experiment 06:56 Significant Results Thread 14:12 How Emergent Ideas Form from Research 16:16 Sara Seager's Atmosphere Models, for Exoplanets 17:53 Is Physics In Crisis? 22:54 Science Psychology: The Ikea Effect 24:37 A Defense of String Theory 27:26 Physics, a Cutthroat Career 34:08 What is Supersymmetry? 40:36 Future Topics Connect with Professor Keating: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	These research is very complex. There's people doing all kinds of different things and so to say physics is not making progress is often just completely ignoring huge swaths of the community that are making real progress.
0:15.0	In other fields, like one person is working on a subject like, oh, someone's got that covered, I should go do something else.
0:20.0	Whereas in particle physics it tends to be, oh, everyone's thinking about dark matter, that's the thing I should be working on, dark matter.
0:25.8	And it's like, yeah, that's a strategy for research that I find can be problematic when the motivation is just to be part of the crowd. Welcome everyone to this physics insider edition of Into the
0:48.6	Impossible. For the first time since the pandemic your host Brian Keating goes live in our new University of California San Diego studio with theoretical physicist and fellow UC San Diego professor, Dan Green.
1:04.0	Dan addresses the so-called crisis and physics head on.
1:07.0	His fundamental physics in a problematic echo chamber,
1:10.0	as has been suggested by past guests including Lee Smolen, Lawrence Kraus, Eric Weinstein,
1:16.8	Sabine Hasenfelder, and Neil Turock.
1:20.4	Dan's Twitter exploded as he tweeted his picks for the most significant
1:24.7	fundamental physics results of the last 40 years that did not win a Nobel Prize
1:29.5	arguing that physics is doing just fine.
1:35.8	Decide for yourself as you enjoy a great discussion and learn some new physics in our very first in-person episode at our
1:41.9	new studio.
1:44.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
1:51.0	Open the five-bay doors please help.
1:54.0	And I'm joined today with a renowned cosmologist, a collaborator, colleague,
2:00.0	Professor Dan Green.
2:01.0	Welcome Daniel to the Into the Impossible Podcast.
2:03.3	Hi, I'm ready to do.
2:04.3	Good to see you too.
2:05.3	Today we're talking about Nobel Dreams or maybe not Nobel Dreams.
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