#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
May 29, 2026 · 3 h 2 min
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Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics.
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OUTLINE:
() – Introduction
() – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
() – Unifying the laws of nature
() – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity
() – Electroweak force
() – How particle colliders work
() – Higgs boson discovery
() – Theory of everything
() – Physics of empty space
() – Antimatter
() – Dark energy
() – Dark matter
() – Future of physics
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