The Woman Who Measured the Universe and Wasn't Believed

In the 1970s, Vera Rubin did the math, checked it twice, and arrived at a conclusion so unsettling that the scientific establishment spent years looking for reasons she was wrong. She wasn't. This episode traces how one astronomer's meticulous observations of spinning galaxies cracked open a crisis that physics still hasn't fully recovered from — and asks what it means to discover something you cannot see, touch, or explain. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.