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96 - The Making of Particle Fever (Ft. David Kaplan)
Why This Universe?•byDan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

96 - The Making of Particle Fever (Ft. David Kaplan)

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In the years leading up to the Large Hadron Collider turning on, the physics community was buzzing with curiosity and excitement about what they were about to discover. These moments were captured in the documentary Particle Fever, created by the particle physicist David Kaplan. On today's episode, he recounts these historic years from the perspective of both physicist and filmmaker.

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96 - The Making of Particle Fever (Ft. David Kaplan)
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96 - The Making of Particle Fever (Ft. David Kaplan)

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94 - Inside the Hubble Tension (Ft. Adam Riess)

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93 - The Moment Dark Energy Appeared (Ft. Adam Riess)

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91 - What Neutrinos Reveal About the Milky Way

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90 - Quintessence: Is Dark Energy Changing? (Ft. Sean Carroll)

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89 - A Dark Matter Vibe Check

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88 - Why Does Our Universe Exist At All? (Ft. Sean Carroll)

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87 - The Good and the Bad of Peer Review

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86 - The Life and Death of Stars

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84 - The Search For New Worlds (ft. Josh Winn)
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84 - The Search For New Worlds (ft. Josh Winn)

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83 - Witnessing a Revolution in Particle Physics (Ft. Chris Quigg)

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82 - Science Vs. Pseudoscience

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81 - Ancient Greek Astronomy

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80 - (April Fools 2024) A Surprising Discovery Shaking Up Modern Cosmology

79 - NanoGRAV's Big Gravitational Wave Discovery (Ft. Chiara Mingarelli)
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79 - NanoGRAV's Big Gravitational Wave Discovery (Ft. Chiara Mingarelli)

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78 - The Life of a Science Journalist (Ft. Katrina Miller)

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77 - All About Quantum Computing (Ft. Henry Lamm)

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