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29 May 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln

“I mean, but that’s the point is you have these lovely, cool, interesting ideas that constantly die. And so, you know, I would love for a new nifty idea to be the idea, but I don’t know how to pick it out of the hurricane of wrong ideas.”

— Don Lincoln

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Don Lincoln
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29 May 2026
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…It leaks into those dimensions. That was a cool idea. I mean, but that’s the point is you have these lovely, cool, interesting ideas that constantly die. And so, you know, I would love for a new nifty idea to be the idea, but I don’t know how to pick it out of the hurricane of wrong ideas. I mean, that’s the real beauty of science. It really is– I mean, the theories kind of get some of the glory sometimes, but the real beauty emerges from the experiment and the demonstration that the theory is correct.…

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