Dark Matter & Dark Energy Are Breaking the Laws of Physics — Here's Why That's Exciting

Ajouté : 2026-05-25

[00:00:01]Dark energy, dark matter.

[00:00:04]These are the topics of this week's podcast on the Spanish public radio service Hombros de Gigantes.

[00:00:14]This podcast is absolutely delicious.

[00:00:19]I was listening to this podcast today during my 15, a little bit more than 15 km long run, very easy.

[00:00:28]And I really enjoyed it.

[00:00:30]Why is it so important dark energy, dark matter?

[00:00:35]Well, it seems that the new experiments carried out by the observatory DESI apparently show that there are some conflicts on the on the model that describes how the universe is expanding.

[00:00:54]It seems that there are things that don't match each other and maybe we need a new physics to explain what is going on.

[00:01:03]That's extremely important because this is how science evolves. We need observations.

[00:01:09]Unfortunately, we cannot carry out experiments to see how the universe is expanding.

[00:01:15]That's why we need to use supercomputers like Mare Nostrum in Spain, supercomputing centers that can simulate those conditions.

[00:01:27]I'm pretty sure the coming years will develop a lot these theories. Cosmology will evolve a lot as well as physics and probably the physical theories that we consider today as absolutely unquestionable will be questioned in the coming years.

[00:01:47]Who knows? Maybe relativity, maybe quantum mechanics will merge and will give birth to absolutely a new way to understand how the universe works.

[00:01:59]That's why science is so important and this is why this is how science evolves. Always question.

[00:02:07]Question everything all the time.

[00:02:09]That's all for today. Enjoy the weekend.

[00:02:11]Bye-bye.