Dark Matter & The Future of Life Beyond Earth | Alex Filippenko (Replay)
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
We live in a universe filled with awe and wonderment so much so that scientists of all disciplines have been exploring the world around us for hundreds of years. Although we have made great advances there is still an immeasurable gap in what there is left to discover.
Alex Filippenko joins we today to share his vast knowledge as an astrophysicist that has been exploring fundamental physics, black holes, galaxies and more for over 40 years. He breaks down quantum entanglement and the expanding universe and a way that is digestible for nearly everyone.
[Original air date: 5-27-21].
SHOW NOTES:
Star-stuff | Alex shares what people should understand about coming from “star-stuff” [3:07]
Contribution & Purpose | Alex on meaning and contributing to understanding the universe [5:54]
Theory | What a good model of theory is and why an ultimate theory may never exist [12:46]
Spinoza’s God | Alex speculates what Einstein meant by God in relation to theory [15:31]
Expanding Universe | Alex demonstrates what it is to simplify the 4th dimension visually [18:57]
Gravity | Why gravity is the weakest of all forces & how it may explain multiple universes [27:46]
Black Holes | Speculation of being ripped apart on squeezed singularity and possibilities [31:53]
Negative Mass | Making sense of mathematical solutions that appear to be unphysical [42:29]
Open Minded | Alex shares why staying open minded is essential and avoiding the trap [50:35]
Spooky Action | Alex breaks down quantum entanglement that Einstein called spook action at a distance [55:35]
Richard Feynman | Alex shares Feynman intuitive view of nature & theory [1:01:04]
Always Learning | Alex on educational opportunity and learning as much as possible [1:05:16]
Quantum Entanglement | Information traveling faster than the speed of light [1:08:28]
Novel Insights | Tom & Alex discuss areas of overlap that creates novel insights [1:16:56]
Quality of Life | Alex on quality of time and what you do with your time not stagnate [1:23:18]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Conversations with Tom. |
| 0:06.9 | I am joined today by somebody that I've been waiting 30 plus years to speak to the legendary |
| 0:13.2 | astronomer, Alex, Filipenko. |
| 0:15.8 | Alex, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:18.3 | Well, Tom, it's my pleasure and my honor. |
| 0:20.4 | You know, you've done so much to |
| 0:21.8 | impact people's lives in a positive way. You know, I've watched a number of your programs. |
| 0:27.2 | It's just been fantastic. And you and I share a number of aspects of our lives in that, |
| 0:34.4 | for example, we like to set goals. We like to be efficient, work hard, be motivated, |
| 0:39.3 | know why it is, we're motivated. And so what you say to people resonates very much with what I've, |
| 0:46.0 | you know, how I've conducted my life and how I try to inspire people as well. |
| 0:50.7 | Wow, man. Thank you. For somebody who was on one of the teams, I think there were 50 of you that |
| 0:56.5 | essentially won the Nobel Prize. I know it can only go to three people, but that you were on that team. |
| 1:01.7 | That's incredible, man. Thank you. You obviously have very useful goals. So I'm very excited to |
| 1:08.4 | sit down and have this chat. And hopefully the next time we do it, we'll be in person. |
| 1:11.9 | That would be amazing. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, I mean, you know, weird circumstances, but I know that in the past year, |
| 1:18.9 | you've had a lot of practice doing these, you know, Skype interviews with people. |
| 1:23.5 | And they've worked out really well. |
| 1:24.8 | It's almost as though I'm there with you in person. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, it is, the technology is a saving grace. And when I think about the fact that this wouldn't |
| 1:33.4 | have been possible, if this had happened back in, you know, 2010, like this wouldn't have been |
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