They Built the Quietest Place on Earth to Find Dark Matter

00:00 One event in 220 days
02:30 The universe grew while we were looking
06:00 Why they named it a WIMP
08:00 The one thing AI is not allowed to do here
13:00 Ninety-five percent of research fails
16:00 Nature does not care if your theory is beautiful
20:00 He left investment banking for this
23:00 You are less than five percent of the universe
27:00 Ten light years of lead. It passes through
30:00 The fifty-year-old idea nobody can kill
33:00 Why everyone was looking at the wrong energy
37:00 What is actually being exchanged
41:00 Beating Moore's law for forty years
45:00 The grad student who waited nine years
49:00 We only get one damn universe
55:00 Ten grams to seven tonnes
58:00 A gold mine and the quietest place on Earth
1:03:00 How you photograph a single electron
1:06:00 The radon in your basement is the enemy
1:08:00 They already see neutrinos from the Sun
1:16:00 World leading at seeing nothing
1:21:00 The assumption that was hiding the signal
1:26:00 A 1.1 TeV particle that changes state mid-collision
1:32:00 The event, and why they will not call it blinded
1:35:00 The background that could fake all of this
1:37:00 Two hundred and twenty thousand days of simulation
1:40:00 How 3.4 sigma becomes 2.6
1:43:00 Three times the data is already on disk
1:46:00 What a single event cannot tell you
1:49:00 The fog nobody can scrub
1:52:00 Whatever happened to DAMA
1:54:00 The dip in the Gaia data
1:56:00 The dark matter we detected in 1956

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Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U
Galileo’s Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un

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