Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedLisa Randall: uncertainty
3 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
“Weirder than it already is, it’s not already anything. We don’t know what it is, so there’s no normalization here.”
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- Speaker
- Lisa Randall
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 3 Dec 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…I think one of the criticisms of your theory on the dinosaurs was that it requires, if I remember correctly, for dark matter to be weirder than it already is. I think you had a clever response to that. Can you remind… I’m not sure I remember what I said then, but we have no idea how weird dark matter is. It’s based on everyone thinking they know what dark matter is. Weirder than it already is, it’s not already anything. We don’t know what it is, so there’s no normalization here. Do we know if dark matter varies in density?…
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