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Thomas Lin

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“Having gone through what I have and having started this magazine and published these two books, I think that it feels very liberating in terms of knowing what you can build and the impact that you can create, even when something doesn't currently exist, that you want to exist, right? And so sort of thinking big and thinking, well, maybe we don't have this thing yet in society or this publication doesn't yet exist or this company that you might want to start and just having a little bit of that confidence and putting in the elbow grease and learning as much as you can, but having the willingness to go out and make the things that you think the world deserves.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wow. You know, I think I would say that. I was just so new to it back, you know, 20 years ago, I wasn't even thinking about journalism yet as a career, right? I think I was probably teaching at the time. But I think that...”
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“You know, I would say find a place and people to work for and with that represent your values that are the kind of work that you see yourself doing. And at the same time, be open to learning, right? I think this is not about millennials or any particular generation. I think all young people starting out come in, sometimes thinking that they have a lot of things figured out and yet the people around you often have a lot of experience and especially the ones who are looking out for you and have your back, you know, it's good to work with them and listen to them and try to pick up a few things because ultimately you will be that person down the road who will hopefully be giving a lending hand to the next generation.”
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“Very true. The funny thing is that decades later, I was there, and still many of the same general themes existed. And it was really fascinating to reading the book while also living it there. And the other book I would say that's one of my all-time favorites is The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. It's about the conflict between the Greeks and the Spartans back many centuries ago. And to me, that gets at some of the universal aspects of human nature, of societies, of why we get into conflicts and why we fight these wars.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, wow. So, you know what? Those are more recent books going all the way back. I'll give you two quick books that in terms of my all-time favorites, one is The Kingdom and the Power by Gay Talise. It's about the New York Times during that era decades ago about how it served as both the fourth estate as a publication, but also the internal machinations and the politics and the internal sort of struggles within the newsroom itself. And it gives you a really good insight into how a major newspaper like the Times came to be and operate. And you were there.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I read a lot of different things. More recent books would see right now I'm reading Vietnam Wen's book The Sympathizer, which I think a couple years ago won the Pulitzer. It's a fictional novel about the Vietnam War. I also recently read Steve Strogest just published a new book called Infinite Powers. It's about calculus. It's amazing whether you like calculus or whether you hate it. You will love the book and you will learn things that you never knew you could or that you wanted to, but you will be so happy that you did.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so many mentors. I mean, I have to really thank everybody that almost all the editors I've worked for and with over the years, especially some of the editors at the science desk, former editors now, some of them, but like Laura Chang was the desk editor at the New York Science Desk editor at the New York Times when I was there. Jim Gorman was Science Times editor at the time. David Corcran, so many of these editors helped shape me as a writer and editor and also thinking about the best ways to communicate science to the public.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so back then, I mean, back before we had GPS, right? No GPI, no GPS, no phones, smartphones, any of that sort of thing. There was an organization called Bike Centennial that used to sell these different routes that you could take. And I think the one we took was one of the longer ones. It was called, I think the Trans America route. There's about 4,000 miles where you went up from Oregon up to Idaho and Montana to the Rockies, and then you ended up winding and going down the Rockies all the way down to Colorado. We crossed the continental divide like nine times, I believe. And then we started heading across the plains, Kansas, and back up through Missouri, back to New York.”
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“This took about two months, and even counting for the extra day we spent in Yellowstone National Park and places where we wanted to just sort of enjoy ourselves a little bit.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So this was, we went whole hog in terms of just putting everything that we needed to live on the bicycles themselves. We had about 50, 60 pounds of gear in our panniers in the front and the back over the front and back wheels and everything we needed from the tent, sleeping bags to a cook stove that we went to the gas station. It paid 25 cents to get a little bit of gas to cook our meals. Everything that we needed and clothing and food and everything was in those bags. And we had quite an adventure.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was amazing. We were young. We did not know what we were doing. It was a group. No, it's just a friend and I. So a college buddy and I, this was between my junior and senior years in college that we took those months to ride from Oregon to New York. How long did it take? The most amazing thing. It took about two months.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wow. Let's see You probably do not know that in 1994, when I was 20, I rode a bicycle across the United States of America.”
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“Right. And what even entropy gives you the initial ingredients to lead to the inflation of the universe, right? So there's a lot of questions that are hard to answer with existing knowledge.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was that a quanta piece? So we did do a story that looked at some new ideas in cosmology where there's a lot of evidence that something like cosmic inflation happened. Although there are questions as to whether there was really just one big bang or whether there's more of a cyclic kind of thing going on or more of a big bounce, right, where things are expanding and then they end up contracting and then they bounce and you get another inflationary period and things kind of go in that way because big crunch, big bang, because if there was a just one and if there was nothing before that.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Attempts to answer some of the big fundamental questions. That really is ultimately what we're about at Quanta. I think that's what I feel is a draw to anybody out there, whether you have a science or math background or not, is that you want to know where we came from, where the universe came from, what is in this universe that we're a part of, and what is reality made of, really. And so if you want to know these things, you have to get at some of these basic questions that the research that we cover try to answer.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, no, it's a combination of things. One is that we want to make sure that what we're covering is some of the most important and perceived that way by the research community itself. Important idea is that will then lead to new other ideas and it's really pushing things forward. So one thing is that another is that we do want to cover again”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you fall into a black hole, as you pass the event horizon, nothing should happen, according to general relativity. You shouldn't feel anything at all. But quantum mechanics says everything has to be quantized. Everything has to be done in discrete bits and is particle interactions. And so that's where you have the problem of the information falling in and possibly disappearing when the black hole evaporates. And that's where you get this firewall. And so quantum mechanics makes you think maybe there has to be something like a firewall or something that's preventing the information from getting in and getting lost. And so there's this big conflict between the two most fundamental theories that we have in physics. And we don't yet know how to connect those two things.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In, we can't lose it. Maybe there's a firewall that just incinerates everything before it gets in so it never goes inside. And this also gets at, again, one of the most fundamental questions right now in physics, which is how do we reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity? Because general relativity says if we follow Einstein's laws of gravity, which essentially is described as curvature in space time.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Black holes we know have intense gravity and they suck things in and at a quantum level contain quantum information. And if something falls into a black hole, what happens to that information, especially after Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes radiate. And if they're radiating, what's now known as Hawking radiation, then eventually over a very, very long time period, the black hole will evaporate and disappear. And so what happened to a lot of information that fell into the black hole in the first place? You can't, in physics says, you can't lose information. You've got to conserve information. And so what happens to it? And so this is a paradox which was highlighted by this idea that these researchers, including Joe Platinski, had of a black hole firewall. And so the idea was, well, if information that dropped”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. I picked the title. It's one of the stories that's in the book because it's sounds kind of dramatic, right? And the cover shows two astronauts standing in front of this hole in the ground, which is supposed to metaphorically represent a black hole. And there's a ring of fire around this deep dark pit. And this is actually one of the interesting theoretical questions in physics that has come about in recent years. It was put forward by a few researchers, including Joe Polchinski, who unfortunately passed away recently. But the question is, and this is also something that Stephen Hawking put forth initially, which is,”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, right. And so, but the pure math that we cover is done, again, to build out this logical universe, right? To sort of see where people can explore. It's almost like it's not necessarily a map to our actual reality and yet, strangely, some of the math that's being developed just again extending our logical universe does come up back to being very useful in terms of the physics and other sciences that we're studying. So this is just one of the, philosophically, I feel like that's one of the most interesting questions out there. Why does it work?”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Meth is just, I mean, pure math especially, right? I mean, this is one of those areas where, and one of the deep questions that people have asked over the years is”
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“Yeah, so I should add that really one of the founders and the president of the foundation is Marilyn Simons, Jim Simons' wife, and she leads a lot of the efforts that are geared more towards education and outreach and making sure people understand and know more about science. And Qanta falls under that umbrella within the foundation. And so I speak with both Jim and Marilyn and probably a little bit more with Marilyn because that's the area that she leads. And really the foundation is a fantastic place to work. It's a place where good ideas are supported and I hope people think that Quanta was a good idea. At the same time, the freedom is, whether it's academic freedom for researchers to study and pursue what they're interested in and to learn whatever they can about the universe, or our journalistic freedom to do real independent journalism while trying to benefit society and make the impact that we can.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they find that this is actually a resource that not only they can use, but that we are actually accurately covering the subjects for anyone who wants to learn more.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. No, that's a good question. And so we never use traffic as a justification for doing a story. We don't chase after clicks or views. However, what we're really looking at is impact, right? Broader impact. Are we both covering the science that is important? Are we choosing the right stories to cover? And are we doing it in a way that is accessible and is interesting and gets at the key insights in a way that enough people will want to read it and learn about it? And so there is a measure of reach as well. We do want the audience to grow. Right now we have, see, last year, I think we were at over 7 million people visit our site and it's growing year to year very nicely. Because again, people are interested in these subjects and we're trying our best to make it accessible for them. So it's both the numbers are important. But at the same time, we want to make sure that the people who are reading it, especially the people who are experts who actually know these subjects really well, also find it valuable.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not only are these subjects difficult, but at the same time they're actually some of the most fascinating things that we can think about because this is the ultimate sort of the most fundamental aspect or layer of reality that we can try to understand. And so I would hope that everyone would be interested and want to pursue some understanding of this just for your own to satisfy your own intellectual curiosity. And so I think the interest is there, but you're right. It is a challenge and we love the challenge if we take it on every day.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I would start by saying that even the foremost experts, physicists, don't really understand everything about quantum physics, right? So, I mean, this is one of the things. It's very difficult. It's a very difficult subject to wrap your head around. And yet, for us, that's the challenge we enjoy, right? We actually like, and I would go a step further to say that...”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Carefully conveying what the study really says, right? Because again, that's where you get the headlines that say we've done this or margin's bad for you or a salt is bad for you or whatever it is. And it really, they ignore too often the nuances of it. What does that study really say? What do we not know? And what are we still trying to learn?”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, and this is sort of what I was alluding to before in terms of the responsibility. I think that journalists and the media have to cover science accurately and carefully. And so one thing is that, yes, there are many studies out there. There are stronger studies and there are weaker studies. And there are studies that have mistakes in them as well. And so the journalists who are covering and writing about science to a broader public have to be able to differentiate between what are studies that have been done with the right procedures that have the large sample sizes that have been carefully vetted by others as well. And then also even in talking about and writing about it, accurately and”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'll just add I think this works on a personal level too. I think that people who are scientifically literate or at least can think in a more scientific way can make better decisions for themselves so they don't get into trouble. They don't either fall”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. Yeah, no, I think one thing is that science is the best way for understanding reality, right? And it's the way that we've developed all of the technologies, all of the modern medicine, everything that we enjoy now in terms of the quality of life comes from that. And so many of the decisions that we have to make as citizens, as a country, as a government have a scientific element to them. And if we can examine those scientific facts carefully, we can make better decisions. And another way to think about it is, would you rather live in a society where people just sort of believe whatever they want to believe? Or would you rather be part of a community where everyone, even if you have disagreements in terms of your ideologies, your politics, your philosophy, you at least agree that facts are facts. And I think that's one of the keys, I think, to me is why I want people to be more scientifically literate.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think, yes, collectively, as a collective enterprise, science is all about having ideas, carefully examining them, finding evidence to support it, and then if it's a bad idea, throwing it out, right? And if it's a good idea, you keep working on it. You keep refining it further. Politics generally doesn't work that way, right? It's much more of a hodgepodge of ideas and people throwing it. There's not a lot of evidence sometimes supporting that. And so on a collective level, I think that's true. Individually, scientists are human also and have opinions and have political views. And so I don't know that it's as a human activity, that it's completely divorced from politics and certainly not from society. But I think that in the sense that science is striving for truth and finding facts and politics often does not do that. So I would say that”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Blowing concept of math itself and the physics itself is very complicated. But this story was read and shared so broadly, it was viewed more than a million times. It even made an appearance on Conan O'Brien's show. He mentioned it in his opening monologue. And so this is shared so broadly and widely, but it was a mind-blowing idea because people, I think a lot of people hadn't necessarily grasped the possibility that space-time and gravity aren't necessarily the most fundamental aspects of our universe and that could be emergent and that there could be things that could lead to a new math that we could figure out, a new simple, well. Somewhat simple looking geometries that could be underlying all of reality.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, that's sort of an inside joke. We don't just look at that. We don't decide what to cover based on how difficult it is, but at the same time, we don't shy away from that either. So I think the example that I like to give for that is that one of our early viral stories actually in fact it's still the most popular story that we've ever published is about this very, very deep physics idea that is both a way it's a geometric way to simplify calculations of particle interactions, a way in a sense to simplify what Feynman diagrams tried to simplify back when Richard Feynman created them decades ago. And at the same time, this geometric approach could also lead eventually, hasn't yet, it hasn't been proven yet, could lead to a way to get things like gravity and space-time to emerge from a more fundamental reality. And so this was a mind.”
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“Right. I think that's being worked on now. There are some groups and people who are leading the charge, who are starting things like the bioarchive and who have been working on the archive for many years and trying to develop a better model for how to publish science, how to vet it carefully, and how to ultimately make it accessible to anyone who wants to read it.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that puts the onus on the scientists. And I think that's really where the rubber meets the road in terms of the scientists doing the research are put in a tough spot in terms of do they continue to submit their papers to these very reputable journals where you have these reputation points that affects your ability to get tenure and to sort of move forward in your academic career, to be published in the most well-known journals? Or do you then say, well, we're going to start going to the public library of science or to the new bioarchive? Are we going to sort of skip that step? And is there enough of an incentive structure built around those newer forms of open access science publications that can then feed back and make it worthwhile for researchers to go that route?”
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“Exactly. You have to buy these. Right. They make millions. And actually, so there was a big piece of news recently when the entire University of California system said no more decided yes.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of thousands of dollars That's a great question. This is something I covered for the New York Times back in 2012. I had a story that was on the cover of Science Times. And this really goes to the fundamental question of what is science for? Who is it for? Who has the right to access and see the results of the work that are Tax money is going, you know, is paying for, essentially. And so you're right that there have been companies that have been extremely profitable in taking the work of scientists, taxpayer funded science, and the scientists who actually run the journals and edit the journals, often for free, and turning around and packaging and bundling these into journals that they sell for very high price back to universities. Academy library library li”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. No, not at all. And it really does depend. Sometimes there is news that we have to respond to quickly and we have to turn something around in a few days. That's not that common, though, in the areas that we're covering, right? So most of the time, we do have at least a few weeks to work on these stories. Some stories, some features that are a couple thousand words could take three weeks to do some pieces a few months, just partly because we're still developing the ideas are still developing. We need to talk to people. The work isn't quite completed yet. And often we're actually covering papers that are coming out on the archive, what's known as the archive, which is a repository of scientific preprint papers, which means that they haven't yet been accepted to a journal and they haven't been peer-reviewed. And yet, this is the place now where you have open access to all sorts of important papers that then other scientists can just chime in and they can get feedback on it. And we can also talk to”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's one of the things there really aren't any popular math publications, and that's partly why I wanted to start Quanta as well. That was very kind of Sean to say that. And he also wrote The Forward to our new science book as well, since Bob Meet the Wall of Fire. And he said some really kind things in there. But he also talked about something that is very true about sort of where we are in terms of media coverage of science. And scientists who are the ones who are the experts who are doing this work often look at, even though they do take the interviews and they talk to reporters, they often are quite skeptical of the way that the media treats their work because unfortunately some publications don't take the time to carefully vet the work and they cover things that either aren't necessarily good studies or they don't talk to enough people to get a sense of what's really going on or they just throw out these headlines that make it seem like we've cured cancer when really we haven't. We've learned maybe a little bit more about”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's really both. Yeah. So we have both. We have people who we have a former math professor who's now a fantastic, probably one of the best math journalists out there today. We have our staff physics writer studied at least part way through a physics graduate program. But we also have our staff math writer is someone who was a humanities major and did not have a math background, but now has been covering it for enough long enough and who has been talking to enough of the top experts that he has this just crystal clear ability that explains some of the most difficult, profound, pure mathematics that you wouldn't believe. And so it's something in other writers like Carl Zimmer, very well known in biology writer. He's written for us a couple of times. He was also a humanities major as well. He's one of the foremost biology writers of our time and has even written textbooks on evolution and things like that. So really, it can come from both sides as long as you end up in a place where you can do both understanding.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To appeal to? Well, yeah, first of all, I would say that there's nothing that I consider something that we wouldn't cover in terms of how difficult it is. That's something that's sort of our calling card as a publication. We will cover the hardest, most abstract, difficult subjects out there. But really, so one thing is that as journalists and as people who have been covering these areas for quite a while, we do get a sense and we get a sense of develop hopefully a good taste in terms of what are important and interesting stories but at the same time we're not experts in these subjects so we can't just say, oh, well, I think this is important. Therefore we're just going to cover this. We actually talk to a lot of the true experts out in the field. We talk to many people and not just people with their own pet theories but to enough people where we can get a sense of, okay, there is this groundswelling of interest and level of excitement about this new idea. And it's worth talking about at the same time it's worth talking about the caveats too and the limitations and so we try to do that as well.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very much. It's very important that it's freely accessible. And we try to make our headlines inviting, but at the same time, we try to capture a little bit of what the story is really about. And so we don't do the clickbait. We don't do things that are overly sensational or misleading.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, no, I think it is liberating in the sense that we are both editorially independent, and yet we are funded to do this very mission oriented, very important kind of journalism, making fundamental science accessible to all. There are other publications like this that are nonprofit, that are funded by foundations like ProPublica, for example, that are very important investigative journalism. And these are the areas of journalism that have a hard time attracting advertisers. They're very expensive because it takes a lot of time to do it well, but they don't pay for themselves. And so they've been slowly receding from the commercial publications that we have.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The movements of galaxies, there's got to be something that's affecting that movement. And dark matter, and then the acceleration of the universe is the dark energy causing that.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there is a lot of indirect evidence that this stuff is out there. Everything that we're observing indicates that dark matter and dark energy does exist. There are some theories out there that have, I think, slowly been, they're sort of not, they're losing favor because the evidence is not supporting it. There's some ideas of modified gravity and other ways that you could explain away things like dark matter. But I think most physicists agree that dark matter and dark energy exist, but we just don't know what it is and we don't have the ability to detect it and we can't see it because whatever it is, it's not interrupt. Yeah, it's dark, but it's not interacting with things that we can detect.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think that's where the debates are happening both things, whether it's in the laboratory in terms of looking at things that are really small or also even looking out what we can actually, in terms of the visible universe, what we can see. And of course, there's a lot that we can't see in terms of dark matter and dark energy, things that we, most of the universe is 95% of the universe is made up of stuff that we don't even know what it is.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is that a fair statement? I think that's fair on one hand. So we are learning more than ever. At the same time, we're also learning how much we don't know. And I think that's also where we are. So it's the golden era in terms of being in this, I think it's very exciting, the things that we can do now, whether it's experimentally, in terms of the theories and the math that's being developed. At the same time, we're also hitting the limits of what we can test experimentally in terms of the largest structures and thinking about the cosmos, but also the smallest quantum level interactions. We're sort of coming to a point where the theories can no longer be fully tested experimentally, and that is leading to a little bit of an internal sort of soul searching. And there's work to be done to figure out what the next revolution will be in physics.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, right, exactly. And that's exactly why I wanted to start this publication. Is I looked out there at the offerings that Mainstream publications had in terms of their science coverage. And it was a little disheartening, I have to say. I mean, not only the level of the lack of depth of the coverage, but also to some extent the choice. I mean, so much of what you see is health and technology coverage, but so little of it is fundamental basic science, which is really where all of our knowledge comes from about the world, about the universe around us. And so I wanted to cover not only these subjects, which are inherently the most fundamental, deepest, biggest questions we have about everything and what's in the universe, how things work, but also cover it in a way with a little bit of depth, still tell engaging stories about it, but actually get things right. Do the careful fact-checking, do the careful reporting and research, take the time to get the story right and to tell the more nuanced story of what's happening in science.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, yeah, and it's hard because I was at the times for almost eight years. I was there for about seven and a half years after the national desk. I worked on the science desk for about three years and learned a lot from the editors there. And I think it was because I was on the science desk. Somebody from the Simon Foundation reached out asking, did I know any good science editors who could help them produce high quality science articles? And I sort of scratched my head and I wanted to find out.”
2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source