#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

2685.389 - 2705.809 Lisa Randall

Absolutely, and that's why we'd like to understand it better. We want to know, is it part of some bigger sector? Why are these particles, why do they have the masses they do? Why is the Higgs boson so light compared to the mass it could have had, which we might have even expected based on the principles of special relativity and quantum mechanics? So that's a really big question.