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

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(11:11) - Dark matter
(30:02) - Extinction events
(41:02) - Particle physics
(56:16) - Physics vs mathematics