Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497
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:*
0:00 – Introduction
0:49 – Unifying the laws of nature
15:20 – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity
32:27 – Electroweak force
44:09 – How particle colliders work
1:02:12 – Higgs boson discovery
1:12:32 – Theory of everything
1:42:17 – Physics of empty space
1:49:41 – Antimatter
2:10:31 – Dark energy
2:14:20 – Dark matter
2:42:56 – Future of physics
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May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep497-sa
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0:00 – Introduction
0:49 – Unifying the laws of nature
15:20 – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity
32:27 – Electroweak force
44:09 – How particle colliders work
1:02:12 – Higgs boson discovery
1:12:32 – Theory of everything
1:42:17 – Physics of empty space
1:49:41 – Antimatter
2:10:31 – Dark energy
2:14:20 – Dark matter
2:42:56 – Future of physics
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Don's Website: https://drdonlincoln.com/
Don's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4nHeNiF
Don's YouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/3PCIW67
Don's X: https://x.com/DrDonLincoln
Don's Books: https://amzn.to/4uYbkOZ
Don's Great Courses: https://shop.thegreatcourses.com/don-lincoln
Don's Audible: https://adbl.co/4wGioRV
Fermilab's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/fermilab
Fermilab's Website: https://www.fnal.gov/
Fermilab's X: https://x.com/fermilab
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@itsonew0rd
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
this is the best video about the world I wish everyne watch at least one in the life!
@craigackerman5893
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Great having you back Lex!
@a.i.4good911
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Lex,
Thank you for your do! ❤
@TheLastHonestInfluencer
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Bring back the Amazon guy.
@teaneggs
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
you can't hate this man
@randyw262
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Nice thanks 🙏🏼
@olgazavilohhina6854
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Разговор не оторваться.
Настолько блестящие,но в то же время "не ослепляющие" обьяснения,которые были просто мастерски проиллюстрированны.Я узнала много нового и очень хорошо провела с Вами вечер пятницы.Спасибо Вам большое.
@MaetreyaBrc
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
When will be podcast with Khabib?
@bradharris1062
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
2:10:16 I'll bet u they oscillator at 80-20 , different
@drwho7545
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
You still haven’t said exactly how electricity and magnetism are the same. There’s an electromagnetic wave in space propagating. How is the electric part and the magnetic part the same? Are they masses? What size? There are big holes in your explanation. Unless, you really don’t want to let anybody know? Come on don, we heard all the rap before. Tell us what you really know.
@Vulturar.D.M
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Do you guys believe a guy here in the comments section might have already written a heart to all the theories of everything out there ?
@MrX-zz2vk
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Michelle Thaller on JRE yesterday and Don Lincoln on Lex today. This has been a good week for me.
@agileaprilfools
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
I liked Lex more before sending him an email and a donation to which he never replied or thanked for,
but maybe I am just dark matter which he is afraid of
@jayeshmodhwadia8164
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Get Edward Witten please
@SparkBerry
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
The Fermilab videos are my favourite physics videos thanks to Dr Lincoln. It's about time he's on!
@vickib8822
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Great Thoth quote
"Awaken something ancient and powerful within you,
remember who you are,
and may you rise as the LIGHT,
the MASTER,
the CREATOR"
@alleneverhart4141
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Great to hear what Dr. Lincoln is thinkin' 😁
@koltonsmith141
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
My comment before video…
@maxplanck9055
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Physics and chemistry and biology is flawed by design, it has open architecture that can be filled with anything including a new genus of people, robo sapien replacing Homo sapiens by co opting existing humans?✌️❤️🇬🇧
@brad-bytes
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Odin's Raven!!
@mozellagi
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Child’s play. One day we will find out we are inside someone else’s particle accelerator…
@garomcfbgdd3211
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
I was promised a hoverboard
And all I got was this spy device that also make phone calls
@dritzzdarkwood4727
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Anyone having had a breakthrough experience with two-way comm. established, will know that time-space is an illusion.
Said person will also know, that the missing component in our quest for ToE is Love.
It is The Prime, capable of penetrating all dimensions, all planes of existence.
@ramonrlcify
May 29, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Lex luv ya and little el
Mas eu não terminei nem a faculdade