Do We Live in a Mirror Universe? Oliver Philcox (#292)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Also available as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/y0_ePN7c1gw What is parity and how can it be violated? A striking asymmetry in the arrangements of galaxies in the sky has been announced. If confirmed, the finding would point to features of the unknown fundamental laws that operated during the Big Bang. “If this result is real, someone’s going to get a Nobel Prize,” said Marc Kamionkowski, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the analysis. Brian Keating and Oliver Philcox discuss the large scale structure of the universe and how enigmatic space tetrahedrons, drawn between galaxies, may map out some key features of the most poorly-understood phases of early big bang cosmology. Oliver Philcox is a theoretical physicist interested in statistical cosmology. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy before spending a year in Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics. He is a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows, hosted at Columbia University. More: https://www.quantamagazine.org/asymmetry-detected-in-the-distribution-of-galaxies-20221205/ 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	If you had never seen the universe and I gave you A the universe or B the universe that I flipped in a mirror
0:09.2	You wouldn't be able to tell which one was which. They both look statistically indistinguishable and
0:13.1	the reason that they should be indistinguishable is because primarily the universe is controlled by
0:17.7	gravity and gravity doesn't care about parity. Anything that's not parity symmetric in the universe tells us that some other force of interest going on.
0:24.8	And if we were to see something like that in the universe on super large scales,
0:27.6	it would tell us that something weird and new is going on that isn't just gravity. Welcome, dear listeners, to this episode of Into the Impossible.
0:41.2	Welcome, dear listeners, to this episode of Into the Impossible, with your host Brian Keating and
0:47.7	Theoretical physicist Oliver Philcox.
0:51.7	Be forewarned, this episode dives deep and may awaken latent
0:56.2	curiosity and thinking at cosmological scales. Does the universe obey
1:00.8	fundamental principles of symmetry?
1:02.9	Is there a hidden tetrahedral asymmetric geometry that could reveal details of
1:07.7	cosmogenesis?
1:09.7	How does one even begin to test theories at the scale of a million galaxies with billions of
1:16.6	tetrahedral relationships.
1:19.6	As Brian and Oliver stretch your imagination to new dimensions, please consider telling us what you
1:24.1	think with a review and by adding an asterism of five stars to our ever-expanding
1:30.0	galaxy. So for now, lean forward. Listen carefully as Brian Keating and
1:35.5	Albert Phil Cox discuss what could be one of the great cosmological
1:39.6	observations of asymmetry in the universe.
1:44.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
1:50.0	Open the pod bay doors please tell.
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