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Dark Matters: Have We Really Failed to Identify Most of the Cosmos?

Friday, September 6, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Online

How confident are we that most matter in the universe has so far escaped detection? And if there is dark matter, might there be dark stars and even a dark big bang? Leading physicist Katherine Freese joins Brian Greene to explore these dark matters.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Moderator

Brian GreenePhysicist, Author

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is recognized for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in his field of superstring theory. His books, The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality, have collectively spent 65 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

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Participant

Katherine FreeseCosmologist, UT Austin

Katherine Freese is the Director of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Jeff & Gail Kodosky Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is …

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