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Published · transcript-backedLisa Randall: evaluation
3 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
“It is and it isn’t because I think what it’s teaching us is that we’re human, the universe is what it is, and we’re trying to interact with that universe and discover what it is.”
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- Lisa Randall
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- evaluation
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- 3 Dec 2023
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Yeah, but the things we cannot see that nevertheless have a gravitational interaction with the things we can’t see is at the layman level, it’s just mind-blowing. It is and it isn’t because I think what it’s teaching us is that we’re human, the universe is what it is, and we’re trying to interact with that universe and discover what it is. We’ve discovered, amazing things. In fact, I would say it’s more surprising that the matter that we know about is constitutes as big a fraction of the universe as it does. We’re limited, we’re human. The fact that we see 5% of the energy density of the universe, about one sixth of the energy density in matter, that’s remarkable. Why should that be? Anything could be out there, yet the universe that we see is a significant fraction. Yeah, but a lot of our intuition, I think operates using visualizations in the mind.…
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