Brian Keating interviews Professor Elena Aprile about the search for dark matter and her life in science (#036)

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http://www.xenon1t.org  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. 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 worlds 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
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