Dark matter and the dinosaurs
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIn my book, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, I talk about the many different ways. There's eight or nine that we deduce not just the existence of dark matter but how much is there.
- Episode: Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastOkay, so you also write in that book about dark matter having to do something with the extinction events, the extinction of the dinosaurs, which is kind of a fascinating presentation of how everything is connected.
- Episode: Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastI mean, I do, I mean, I talk about this in Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. It's just an amazing scientific story because it really is one of the real stories that combine together different fields of science.
- Episode: Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastSo I'm really, really glad you mentioned that because actually, that was one of the main points of my book, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. One of the reasons I wrote it was because I really think we are abusing the planet.