Episode Notes

Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics.Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep497-scSee below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

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OUTLINE:(00:00) – Introduction(00:34) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections(08:52) – Unifying the laws of nature(23:23) – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity(40:31) – Electroweak force(52:13) – How particle colliders work(1:10:16) – Higgs boson discovery(1:20:35) – Theory of everything(1:50:20) – Physics of empty space(1:57:45) – Antimatter(2:18:35) – Dark energy(2:22:23) – Dark matter(2:50:59) – Future of physics

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