S8 Ep872: Patricio Gallardo discusses the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. He details future efforts to calibrate telescopes for detecting the "Axion" particle to understand the composition of the missing universe. (8/16)
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 1:12.8 | For full terms, visit the QVC website. I'm John Bachelor, and I'm with David Livingson, Hotel Mars Episode N, and we're very thrilled to be speaking with the cosmologist, Patricio Gallardo, who has published in physical review letters, evidence of that |
| 1:46.7 | Newton was right, that's always reassuring, and evidence that something called dark matter is the |
| 1:52.3 | explanation that reaffirms that Newton was right in the vast distances between clusters, |
| 1:59.2 | between galaxy clusters, vast distances. |
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