Cosmic Mysteries

Synopsis: Five leading physicists describe different aspects of some of today’s most captivating mysteries, from dark matter and dark energy to the cosmological constant problem, to the question of the peculiar state of entropy at the Big Bang.
Runtime: 24 mins | Production year: 2017
Featured researchers:

  • Justin Khoury, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
  • Rocky Kolb, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago.
  • Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford
  • Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University
  • Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study