Michael Blanton identifies dark matter as a major unanswered question in astronomy. He argues that interpreting the evidence requires a better understanding of ordinary matter and the complex physics within galaxies.
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38:00>> That's cool. >> So, that that that's one thing and I would say the other thing really for me, which is also related to galaxies is that I really think dark matter is a gigantic >> Yeah, of course. Everybody is >> And and I I I I one of the things that motivates me about studying galaxies, although they're very complicated and annoying in the way that that that it's hard to make predictions about them. Uh I do feel like if we really want to know more about dark matter, we better understand the physics of galaxies a lot better than we do today. Otherwise, I don't think we're making progress um without without sort of understanding
38:40the way the regular material works. >> Yeah. Yeah. All right. Totally. That's That's a fascinating problem. Um well, all the best to you and Carnegie, there's one last question that I want to ask. I want to go back down memory lane to your undergrad days. >> Oh boy. >> In at Cornell >> Yes. >> you did engineering physics, right? >> Yeah. >> Um but you actually were in the research group where they were doing numerical relativity simulations. >> Yeah, that's right. >> Right? Um so, have you seen Interstellar
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