Where the Sea Ends, the Sky Begins: Navigating Cosmic Mysteries

Breakthrough Prize Winner Lyman Page joins Brian Greene to discuss his unusual path into physics, his extraordinary work
measuring the cosmic background radiation and his ongoing quest to shed light on dark matter, dark energy, gravitational waves and other cosmic mysteries.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participant: Lyman Page
Moderator: Brian Greene

00:00 - Introduction
01:47 - Lyman Page's Path to Cosmology
10:20 - Learning Physics While Sailing the World
17:10 - Grad School and Meeting Rai Weiss
23:29 - Early Days Mapping the Early Universe
29:40 - The Six Numbers of Cosmological Understanding
37:39 - Analyzing the CMB
44:57 - How WMAP Became Part of the Story
53:02 - Discoveries from WMAP Data
01:01:50 - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Hubble Tension
01:08:18 - Actively working on an Axion and Other Detectors
01:14:10 - The Convergence for Dark Energy
01:22:18 - Comparing the Measurements of the Hubble Constant
01:24:56 - Will Science Reach the End of What We Can Measure
01:29:41 - What Are We Looking for in Primordial Gravitational Waves
01:38:00 - JWST Vs. the CMB
01:41:32 - The Final CMB Experiment
01:44:12 - Discovering Axions

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