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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln

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About this episode

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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