Can Colliding Stars Snap the Hubble Tension? | World Science Festival

Cosmologist Hiranya Peiris joins Brian Greene to discuss pressing cosmological mysteries spanning dark matter, dark energy, the expansion rate of space, and the possibility of a multiverse.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participant: Hiranya Peiris
Moderator: Brian Greene

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:06 - Welcome Hiranya Peiris
07:45 - "Just Six Numbers" of the universe
11:22 - Inflationary theory is just a toy model
17:01 - What is the confidence that Dark matter is real?
28:52 - AXIONS and the strong CP problem
39:15 - Lessons from WMAP
45:22 - The Vera Rubin Telescope: A New Era in Astronomy
49:34 - How AI Will Analyze Astronomical Data
52:45 - A Gravitational Wave Compact Object Merger of Neutron Stars
01:05:38 - What We Know About Dark Energy Today
01:14:11 - The Multiverse: Science or Speculation?
01:22:11 - The Power of Quantum Simulations
01:32:50 - Credits

Can Colliding Stars Snap the Hubble Tension?
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