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#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

December 03, 2023

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OUTLINE:

Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

(00:00) – Introduction

(11:11) – Dark matter

(30:02) – Extinction events

(41:02) – Particle physics

(56:16) – Physics vs mathematics