Claudia de Rham, a leading theoretical physicist at Imperial College, discusses her groundbreaking work on modifying gravity and its implications for cosmology. She challenges common assumptions about gravity, explores the bridge between quantum theory and general relativity, and highlights her new book “The Beauty of Falling”.
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:00 - Wrong Assumptions About Gravity
- 09:28 - General Relativity
- 11:43 - Everything is Quantized
- 13:07 - Quantum Theory and GR
- 18:35 - The Beauty of Falling Book
- 27:40 - Repulsion vs Attraction
- 31:37 - Expansion of the Universe
- 48:02 - Discovery Timeline
- 01:03:53 - Curt Summarizes Theory
- 01:07:42 - Ghost Particles
- 01:14:51 - Claudia on Ghost Particles
- 01:29:20 - Advice to Aspiring Scientists
- 01:32:04 - What Else Does Theory Solve
- 01:35:24 - Higuchi Bound
- 01:44:12 - Anti-Gravity
- 01:45:29 - Witten-Weinberg Theorem
- 01:47:06 - Claudia’s Current Work
- 01:59:12 - Speed of Light and Causality
- 02:02:50 - Outro / Support TOE
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- Claudia de Rham Imperial Profile - https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.de-rham
- Claudia’s Talk (The Royal Institution): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7MN64JlsMw
- Claudia on New Scientist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTjpK8-lCY
- Iceberg of String Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY
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