The Woman Who Broke Gravity | Claudia de Rham

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Claudia de Rahm is a prominent theoretical physicist and a professor at Imperial College London, renowned for her pioneering research in modifying gravity theories. With a strong background in cosmology and gravitational physics, Claudia has significantly advanced our understanding of the universe’s fundamental forces.

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LINKS:

- 'The Beauty of Falling' (Claudia’s book): https://amzn.to/3Xcfm8z

- The Economist (Article) "The Universe’s Creaking Model": https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking

- Fay Dowker on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgYHEPCLVas

- "People of IP": https://insidetheperimeter.ca/fr/les-gens-de-lip-la-gravite-na-pas-de-prise-sur-claudia-de-rham/

- Claudia de Rham Imperial Profile - https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.de-rham

- Claudia’s Talk (The Royal Institution): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7MN64JlsMw

- Claudia on New Scientist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTjpK8-lCY

- Iceberg of String Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - Wrong Assumptions About Gravity

09:28 - General Relativity

11:43 - Everything is Quantized at the Fundamental Level

13:07 - Quantum Theory and General Relativity

18:35 - ‘The Beauty of Falling’ Book

27:40 - Repulsion vs. Attraction

31:37 - Expansion of the Universe

48:02 - How Did We Not Discover This Earlier?

01:03:53 - Curt Summarizes the Theory

01:07:42 - Ghost Particles

01:14:51 - Claudia’s Background with Ghost Particles

01:29:20 - Advice to Aspiring Scientists

01:32:04 - What Else Does This Theory Solve?

01:35:24 - Higuchi Bound

01:44:12 - Anti-Gravity

01:45:29 - Witten-Weinberg Theorem

01:47:06 - Claudia’s Current Work

01:59:12 - Speed of Light and Causality

02:02:50 - Outro / Support TOE

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