#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
5/29/20263 hr 2 min
Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) – Introduction
(00:34) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:52) – Unifying the laws of nature
(23:23) – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity
(40:31) – Electroweak force
(52:13) – How particle colliders work
(1:10:16) – Higgs boson discovery
(1:20:35) – Theory of everything
(1:50:20) – Physics of empty space
(1:57:45) – Antimatter
(2:18:35) – Dark energy
(2:22:23) – Dark matter
(2:50:59) – Future of physics
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The following is a conversation with Don Lincoln, a particle physicist at Fermilab, who has spent decades working at the frontier of high energy physics. This was a mind-blowing and inspiring conversation. Don turned out to be one of my favorite people to talk to about physics. Truly a unique mind with that Richard Feynman ability of taking very complicated ideas and explaining them simply without losing any of the essential brilliant insights at the core of those ideas. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description or at lexfridman.com/sponsors. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. We got Upwork for hiring quality freelancers, Lariden for understanding how AI is used in your business, Fin for customer service AI agents, Element for electrolytes, Shopify for selling stuff online, and Perplexity for curiosity-driven knowledge exploration. Choose wisely, my friends. And now onto the full ad reads. I try to make them interesting, but if you skip, please still check out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. To get in touch with me for whatever reason, go to lexfridman.com/contact, including for something I recently tweeted about, which is for travel recommendations. If you wanna help me out and, uh, help me figure out where next I should go in the world, and also