The Woman Who Broke Gravity | Claudia de Rham

Get a 20% discount on The Economist's annual digital subscriptions at https://www.economist.com/TOE 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. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Become a YouTube Member Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) Join TOEmail at https://www.curtjaimungal.org 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 Support TOE: - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Follow TOE: - NEW Get my 'Top 10 TOEs' PDF + Weekly Personal Updates: https://www.curtjaimungal.org - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoriesofeverythingpod - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theoriesofeverything_ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices