This episode explores how frontier research in physics is about questions that tie back into a philosophical discussion on us – one of the great mysteries of the universe. What are the current big ideas in physics? What are their implications? How is a typical day of a researcher at CERN organized? How are we working to answer the big questions? Bibhushan states that the reason why we ask questions about the universe is not necessarily motivated by a practical end, but it’s something that appeals to our human nature, and something we value just like music and philosophy.
Bibhushan Shakya is a theoretical particle physicists with an interest in collider physics, neutrino physics, cosmology and astroparticle physics, currently working at CERN. He grew up in Kathmandu, Nepal, before moving to the United States to pursue higher education at Stanford and Cornwell. He studied physics, mathematics, and philosophy while gaining research experience in observational cosmology and theoretical astrophysics. He has been with CERN since July 2019.
All the stars, the galaxies, the gas we see, the Earth, everything on it, all the planets, all the stars: those only make up less than 5% of the universe. And that is one of the big questions of physics today: what is other 95% that we know exists but we have no idea what it is?
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