Scotohylology (DARK MATTER) with Flip Tanedo

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

It’s invisible. It’s mysterious. It’s all around us – and no one knows what it is. Let’s have a fun existential crisis by pondering Dark Matter! The world’s most affable and endearing theoretical particle physicist, Dr. Flip Tanedo of UC Riverside, makes the Large Hadron Collider, Higgs bosons, and neutrinos make sense. Also: Star Trek, space ghosts, vintage insults, supernovas and more. You’ll leave with a newfound wonder and the desire to read physics journals for the secrets of life. Follow Dr. Tanedo on Twitter His website: Particle.ucr.edu Donations went to: The Point Foundation & Feeding America: Riverside & San Bernardino More episode sources and links Other episodes you may enjoy: Cosmology (THE UNIVERSE), Quantum Ontology (WHAT IS REAL?), Futurology (THE FUTURE), Selenology (THE MOON), Aereology (MARS), Eschatology (THE APOCALYPSE), Astrobiology (ALIENS), UFOlogy (UNEXPLAINED AERIAL PHENOMENA), Space Archeology (SPACE JUNK) Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media, and Mark David Christenson Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Nick Thorburn

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your three half scratched off to do lists that you really should combine into one
0:05.7	but then you'd have to confront the tasks that you want to do the least.
0:09.2	Hi, Alliward, what is life? Where do we come from? Why do I have thoughts?
0:13.9	Where does my spirit go when I die? Does anything matter? Does anyone know anything?
0:18.0	These are just some of the existential crises you're about to enjoy. All under the guise of
0:22.9	understanding particle physics, it gets spooky and I love it. Come along. So you're about to
0:28.4	meet UC Riverside's associate professor of theoretical particle physics who studied mathematics and
0:34.5	physics at Stanford and Cambridge, got a PhD at Cornell. He's also so lovable. Oh, you don't love him.
0:42.4	So his life's work and passion is figuring out how an invisible mysterious matter fits in our
0:48.6	understanding of a universe and nature. So we recorded this before the holidays and I have been
0:54.0	hanging onto it so excited to finally release it into the cosmos and into your face. So I went
1:00.3	to campus on what I later found out was the very first day of UC Riverside's fall semester.
1:05.6	It was a broiling hot September afternoon. I took my little grubby purse full of cords and microphones.
1:11.2	I showed up at his office door like someone waiting to meet a Broadway star. Hello, I'm Alliward.
1:16.9	It's such a pleasure to meet you. It's just I just took a coat of test before I left. It's so good to me.
1:22.9	Yeah, I'm super excited. I feel like I should be interviewing you.
1:28.1	Is there anything you need? Oh my gosh. No, I'm not as like a time machine and a hairdresser.
1:35.1	So we chatted in his office and I made him tell me his life story and also explain things that are
1:40.4	way above my own pay grade. But before we get into it, just a quick thanks to patrons of the show
1:45.8	who make it possible and you can join and submit questions for just a dollar a month. We're about to
1:50.5	record a new slew of episodes. So get them in before then. Also thank you to everyone who rates
1:55.8	and reviews the show. I honestly read every single one and his evidence. Thank you to Hayoung Ski
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