Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Dark matter and the dinosaurs
Buy on Amazon"In 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."
Dark matter and the dinosaurs
Buy on Amazon"Okay, 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."
Dark matter and the dinosaurs
Buy on Amazon"I 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."
Dark matter and the dinosaurs
Buy on Amazon"So 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."
WARPED PASSAGES
Buy on Amazon"I mean, one of the really interesting pieces of physics we did that I talk about in my first book, "Warped Passages," is finding out that there can be a higher dimension, but only locally do you think there's a gravity of a lower dimension."
Knocking on heaven's door
Buy on Amazon"And I think that's just good advice for everything, to try to find like why it is the way it is. I talk about effective theory in my second book, "Knocking on Heaven's Door," a lot."