#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(11:11) – Dark matter
(30:02) – Extinction events
(41:02) – Particle physics
(56:16) – Physics vs mathematics