Modified Gravity: A new way to explain dark matter and dark energy [Astro et al Ep. 2]

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Is Einstein wrong? What is dark energy? What is dark matter? What is Relativity? On today’s episode, I talk with Jackson Said from the University of Malta about his research on Modified Gravity as a way to get rid of the dark “stuff” problem. We talk about gravity, Einstein theory of relativity and so much more.

During the conversation

Einstein’s Field Equation

Books we talked about*

• A brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• Einstein: His Life and Universe, by  Walter Isaacson

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