Einstein's biggest blunder | Claudia de Rham FULL INTERVIEW
389Physicist Claudia de Rham discusses her life-long passion for gravity and the radical place it has led her.
Does gravity prove Einstein wrong?
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What does it mean to tinker with gravity itself, to tweak the force that we all feel? Claudia de Rham, an award-winning theoretical physicist and trained pilot, deep-sea diver and astronaut, takes us there. In this exclusive interview, she explores the enduring mystery of the cosmological constant, Einstein’s ‘greatest blunder’, and the proclaimed ‘worst prediction in physics’: quantum vacuum fluctuations should exert colossal gravitational effects, yet the universe expands so gently we barely notice. Where does dark energy fit into the story and what truth might we uncover? De Rham probes whether general relativity could break on cosmic scales, and what happens when we give the graviton a mass. From higher-dimensional escapes to gravitational waves that nearly travel at light speed, she invites us into the playful, profound frontier of gravity’s nature, and our evolving understanding of the cosmos.
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Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist based at Imperial College London, who works on cutting-edge research at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics. In 2020 she won the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists for revitalizing the theory of massive gravity.
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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Why gravity
04:20 Cosmological constant problem
16:00 Massive gravity
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