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Sean Carroll: belief

22 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

“We think that in the galaxy dark matter is lumpy, but it’s weaker, its effects are weaker.”

— Sean Carroll

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Speaker
Sean Carroll
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Apr 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

Transcript context

…Verifiable clumps of dark matter in the galaxy that explains stuff. Bigger than the galaxy, sadly. We think that in the galaxy dark matter is lumpy, but it’s weaker, its effects are weaker. But on the scale of large scale structure and clusters of galaxies and things like that, yes, we can show you where the dark matter is. Could there be a super cool explanation for dark matter that would be interesting as opposed to just another particle that sits there and clumps?…

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