This aired on Natasha Mitchell’s Science Friction on Radio National this week.
How do you solve a problem like Dark Matter? With poet Alicia Sometimes.
It's the cosmic glue that tethers us together in the universe, but how do you solve a problem like Dark Matter?
About 85% of all matter in the universe is invisible to us. So, what is it? How did it come to be? Why is it there?
Poet and science fan Alicia Sometimes dips a toe into the darkness.
Meet Australia's Dark Matter detectives.
Compositions in this program are by Andrew Watson and Alicia Sometimes.
Guests:
Alicia Sometimes
Poet, writer, podcaster, broadcaster
Astronomer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics
Swinburne University
Lead scientist, Royal Institution of Australia
PhD candidate
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Swinburne University
Astrophysicist
North Carolina State University
Author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) (Penguin 2020)
Research Fellow
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems
University of Western Australia
Further information:
ARC Centre for Excellence in Dark Matter Particle Physics
This image was produced by a simulation showing the evolution of dark matter in the universe. (Credit: Milennium-II Simulation)