Scotohylology (DARK MATTER) with Dr. Flip Tanedo
It’s invisible. It’s mysterious. It’s all around us – and no one knows what it is. Let’s have a fun existential crisis by pondering Dark Matter! The world’s most affable and endearing theoretical particle physicist, Dr. Flip Tanedo of UC Riverside, makes the Large Hadron Collider, Higgs bosons, and neutrinos make sense. Also: Star Trek, space ghosts, vintage insults, supernovas and more. You’ll leave with a newfound wonder and the desire to read physics journals for the secrets of life.
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Donations went to The Point Foundation and Feeding America: Riverside & San Bernardino
Links to things we discussed:
Ernest Ma’s 2020 paper: Universal Scotogenic Fermion Masses in Left-Right Gauge Model
Two Kinds Of Gravitational Lenses Both Reveal Dark Matter
Fritz Zwicky: The Father of Dark Matter Still Gets No Respect
CERN explains, “What’s so special about the Higgs particle?”
NASA explains: Dark Energy, Dark Matter
Who Really Discovered Dark Matter: Fritz Zwicky Or Vera Rubin?
Two Kinds Of Gravitational Lenses Both Reveal Dark Matter
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
The Milky Way’s next supernova could reveal dark matter
Dr. Katie Mack’s book, “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)”
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Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media, and Mark David Christenson
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