Professor Jim Al-Khalili is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey, a broadcaster and an author.

Trying to describe reality in theoretical frameworks is no small task for physicists. But it also turns out that the implications of some theories suggests that reality might be even more bizarre than it seems. The universe is a scary, confusing place to exist, if we exist at all.

Expect to learn why you can't walk through brick walls, why a tiny imbalance in the matter and antimatter just after the big bang was very important, just how fine tuned for life our universe really is, where all the big discoveries in theoretical physics have gone, why faster-than-light neutrinos can't go faster than light, why you shouldn't value opinions over evidence and much more...

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00:00 Intro
02:27 Understanding Dark Matter
09:18 Distrust for Scientists
21:27 Faster-than-light Neutrinos
29:14 Constructing the Theory of Everything
38:40 Theorists vs Experimentalists
46:50 Are Mars Missions a Waste of Time?
54:59 Sense-making in a World of Opinion
1:01:57 Where to Find Jim

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