Michael Shermer with Dr. Lisa Randall — Dark Matter & the Dinosaurs (Science Salon # 1)

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The renowned Harvard cosmologist and theoretical physicist, Dr. Lisa Randall, explores a scenario in which a disk of dark matter—the elusive stuff in the universe that interacts through gravity like ordinary matter, but that doesn’t emit or absorb light—dislodged a comet from the Oort cloud that was ultimately responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction. Randall teaches us an enormous amount about dark matter, our Universe, our galaxy, asteroids, and comets—and the process by which scientists explore new concepts

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This event was recorded on November 22, 2015 at Science Salon, hosted by The Skeptics Society, in California.

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