Janna Levin - Mysteries of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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Cosmologists and astrophysicists have uncovered a lot about the evolving universe, but there remains at least one enormous unsolved mystery: dark matter and dark energy. Scientists can measure the impact of these enigmatic forces on the structure and expansion of the universe, but nobody knows for sure what they actually are. For this fourth and final installment in our Mysteries of the Universe series, we wanted to find an established physicist who could take us all the way out to the fringes of mainstream science’s quest to solve the mystery of dark matter and dark energy.
Enter theoretical physicist Janna Levin, whose job description is to help pioneer cutting-edge explanations for why the cosmos acts the way it does. In this mind-bending interview with EnlightenNext’s Tom Huston, Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University, explains several of the wide array of theories about these mysterious “shadows” of the visible universe. Regarding dark matter, Dr. Levin’s favorite theory is that this invisible substance may not be matter at all but may actually reflect the influence of gravity from imperceptible “extra-spacial dimensions” on the visible universe.
Dr. Levin writes novels about science on the side, and her capacity to translate esoteric ideas into popular language makes even the most hard-to-grasp cosmological concepts remarkably accessible. Her humility in the face of these scientific unknowns, mingled with her ability to think and imagine in more dimensions than most of us are used to, shows us how much more we have to learn about who we are, where we’ve come from, and where we’re going.
BIO
Dr. Janna Levin is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, where her scientific research focuses on the early universe, chaos, and black holes. Her recent book, the novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf, 2006), won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers, which “honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work . . . represents distinguished literary achievement.” She is also author of the popular science book How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a FiniteTime in a Finite Space.
Levin holds a BA in physics and astronomy with a concentration in philosophy, also from Barnard, and a PhD in physics from MIT. She worked at the Center for Particle Astrophysics (CfPA) at the University of California, Berkeley, before moving to the UK, where she worked at Cambridge University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Just before returning to New York, she was the first scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford with an award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and Arts (NESTA).
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| Media Type | Audio |
| Number of Programs | 1 |
| Format | MP3 |
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| Janna Levin - Mysteries of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy | 15:00 |
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