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Particle Physics
Particle physics studies the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting between them.
Lex Fridman Podcast·Culture
Don Lincoln says the Higgs field turned on 10^-12 seconds after the Big Bang and gave particles mass
The Fermilab physicist gives the cleanest possible version of a very weird idea: mass, at least for elementary particles, arrived when the early universe cooled enough for the Higgs field to switch on.
Lex Fridman Podcast·Culture
Don Lincoln says galaxies with no dark matter are strong evidence dark matter is real
The physicist’s best pro dark matter argument is wonderfully backward: the missing stuff looks more real when you can find places where it’s missing.
Lex Fridman Podcast·Culture
Don Lincoln says quantum field theory predicts dark energy 10^120 times too large
The Fermilab physicist puts a number on the vacuum catastrophe, and the number is so stupidly large it makes ordinary scientific failure look dainty.