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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
MAY 29, 2026181 MIN
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
MAY 29, 2026181 MIN
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<p>Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics.<br />
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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(00:34) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections<br />
(08:52) – Unifying the laws of nature<br />
(23:23) – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity<br />
(40:31) – Electroweak force<br />
(52:13) – How particle colliders work<br />
(1:10:16) – Higgs boson discovery<br />
(1:20:35) – Theory of everything<br />
(1:50:20) – Physics of empty space<br />
(1:57:45) – Antimatter<br />
(2:18:35) – Dark energy<br />
(2:22:23) – Dark matter<br />
(2:50:59) – Future of physics</p>
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