Where the Sea Ends, the Sky Begins: Navigating Cosmic Mysteries
Description
Breakthrough Prize Winner Lyman Page joins Brian Greene to discuss his unusual path into physics, his extraordinary work
measuring the cosmic background radiation and his ongoing quest to shed light on dark matter, dark energy, gravitational waves and other cosmic mysteries.
This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
Participant: Lyman Page
Moderator: Brian Greene
0:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:20 Lyman Page's Path to Cosmology
00:11:00 The Standard Model of Cosmology
00:17:00 Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
00:23:30 Mapping the Early Universe
00:30:00 The Six Parameters Explained
00:37:30 Analyzing the Cosmic Heat Map
00:44:00 Confirming the Big Bang Theory
00:50:30 Advancements with WMAP & Planck
00:56:00 Open Questions: Dark Matter & Energy
01:01:30 Exploring the Hubble Tension
01:08:00 The Hunt for Primordial Gravitational Waves
01:14:00 Competing Models: Inflation vs. Cyclic Universe
01:20:00 New Frontiers in Observation
01:26:30 Filaments, Lensing, and Mapping Mass
01:33:00 Lyman's Shift to Axion Research
01:39:00 Technological Breakthroughs in Detection
01:44:00 Final Thoughts & Looking Ahead
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