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 VISIT our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com FOLLOW us on Social Media: Facebook: / worldsciencefestival Twitter: / worldscifest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worldscifest/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@worldscifest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-science-festival #worldsciencefestival #briangreene #cosmology #astrophysics