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278 - Priyamvada Natarajan: The Mystery of Dark Matter

278 - Priyamvada Natarajan: The Mystery of Dark Matter

Robinson's Podcast vor 3 Monaten

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Priyamvada Natarajan is the Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton
Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics at Yale
University, where she is also the Chair of Astronomy. Priya
researches broadly across astrophysics and cosmology; some topics
she has worked on include gravitational lensing, black hole
physics, the philosophy of science, and dark matter. In this
conversation, Priya and Robinson largely stick to the latter.
They discuss her interest in cosmology writ large, as well as how
the scientific community tackles the unknown. Priya’s most recent
book is Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas that
Reveal the Cosmos (Yale, 2016).

Mapping the Heavens: https://a.co/d/02HPcMB1

OUTLINE

00:00 A Paradox of Cosmology

06:16 Investigating Invisibilia

11:25 The Sociology of Astrophysics

16:52 Phenomenology in Physics

19:47 What Is the Mystery of Dark Matter?

29:07 The Problem of Dark Energy

36:38 Models and Simulations

46:17 Modifying the Standard Model to Explain Dark Matter

58:20 The Crisis in Dark Matter

01:12:22 Alternative Explanations of Dark Matter

01:19:51 Fine-Tuning and the Multiverse

01:25:24 Black Holes

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD
candidate in the Law School.