Exploring Dark Matter, Multiverses, and Meteorites

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You know what's better than a 250k sub celebration? 

Nothing! 

I am immensely grateful for each and every one of you. Thank you so much for joining me on this journey. There is nothing I love more than engaging with all of you and sharing my passion for the impossible every day. 

To celebrate and commemorate this crazy milestone, I've asked for questions on all my channels, and today, I'm going to answer them all! 

So, without further ado, let’s get right Into the Impossible!

Key Takeaways:

00:00:00 Intro 

00:01:37 Does time have any relationship with temperature? 

00:07:18 On losing the Nobel Prize

00:14:07 How much do I get paid? 

00:16:43 Why do we prioritize studying the minutiae? 

00:22:35 How do we know that the CMB occurred 380,000 years after the Big Bang?

00:27:52 The greatest challenge of our educational system 

00:36:04 Why I’m not convinced by determinism 

00:41:52 The reality of podcasting and money 

00:50:01 Is it time to stop taking Sam Harris seriously?

00:56:24 Problems in our educational system and the prestige of physics 

01:08:30 How do I explain my work at cocktail parties?

01:11:56 Could gravity be massive? 

01:15:00 Could the universe be an infinite multidimensional fractal?

01:24:43 Gravitational lensing 

01:28:00 How many galaxies does the universe contain? 

01:30:57 Joe Rogan’s mini-me? 

01:36:37 Does dark matter even exist? 

01:39:50 My favorite meteorites, Starlink and the Simons Observatory

01:43:29 Extra interdimensional beings? 

01:48:30 Are there various ways to solve the Hubble tension? 

01:54:50 Outro

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