When Will We Detect Dark Matter? Elena Aprile and the XENON Experiment (#303)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Qp3YOsaJ4r0 Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Elena Aprile is UCSD’s Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UC San Diego and Professor of Physics at Columbia University. She is the founder and spokesperson of the XENON Dark Matter Experiment. Aprile is well known for her work with noble liquid detectors and for her contributions to particle astrophysics in the search for dark matter. Professor Aprile appears in the documentary CHASING EINSTEIN about the search for dark matter. https://chasingeinsteinfilm.com/ www.xenon1t.org Could Einstein have been wrong about the true nature of gravity? Does his general theory of relativity and the Standard Model need an update? Unprecedented advances in experimental particle physics, astronomy and cosmology are uncovering mysteries of cosmic consequence. Among the most challenging is the realization that 80% of the universe consists of something unknown that exerts galactic forces pulling the universe apart. The search for Dark Matter extends from the world's most powerful particle accelerators to the most sensitive telescopes, to deep under the earth. Nobel worthy discoveries await. Scientists at UC San Diego are at the epicenter of the search for Dark Matter leading efforts to build the next generation of instruments and experiments to uncover its secrets. Find the How to Fix the Internet podcast here: eff.org/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5-star rating and review for The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find 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 To advertise with us, contact advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.2	If you think that we, I mean, the stuff that we, I mean the stuff that we know makes such a little amount in this universe is just how can you not think about finding out what the rest is when you tell your
0:19.0	children or your friends I mean what are you doing you studying dark matter and the way I usually presented is
0:25.1	that we're trying to find out what the 95% of the universe is made of.
0:30.3	For normal people this is an intriguing question but for us it's much more intriguing because
0:35.9	The connection about dark matter and what it is and particle physics and what we learned all this life about the building blocks of nature and
0:46.0	the fundamental laws of physics and all that can change. Welcome everyone to this replay edition of Into the Impossible
0:59.8	featuring Experimental Particle Physicist Columbia Professor and featuring experimental particle physicist, Columbia professor,
1:04.7	and spokesperson for the Xenon Dark Manor Project,
1:08.0	Alina April.
1:11.4	One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of physics, astrophysics, and astronomy is that 85% of the composition of the observable universe consists of unknown, dark matter, and dark energy.
1:23.7	Professor Appreel is dedicated to solving that mystery.
1:27.8	In pursuit of that goal, she has been the cornerstone of some of the most ambitious particle physics
1:32.0	detector experiments ever undertaken.
1:34.1	In this replay episode your host Professor Keating delves deep into the motivations
1:39.6	and accomplishments of this great woman of science. We learn how she has overcome incredible
1:44.1	obstacles to build one of the world's great observational physics
1:47.0	experiments in pursuit of solving the mystery of the dark sector.
1:51.2	If you appreciate hearing firsthand from scientists like Professor
1:56.0	April, please consider adding to our observational data with a five star rating and keep in touch with Professor Keating by joining his email
2:04.9	list at Brian Keating.com slash list and if you have a dot edu domain we'll send you a bit of
2:12.1	space dust in the form of an authentic meteorite fragment.
2:17.0	Please help make the show better by filling out our listener survey at the link in the show notes.
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