Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Don Lincoln (Senior scientist, Fermilab) talking, from an interview on Lex Fridman Podcast published May 29, 2026.
What Don Lincoln said
Why a theory of everything is probably far off and string theory likely wrong
“I think it is the absolute, the pinnacle of arrogance to think that what we can do, given the understanding that we have from what we've measured now”
Don Lincoln1:25:36 Making one gram of antimatter would take a billion years
“So that means at that rate, with that facility, it would take a billion years running with very little downtime to make a single gram of antimatter.”
Don Lincoln1:57:14 Why Fermilab narrowly missed the Higgs discovery to CERN
“Both accelerators could either find it or definitively rule out the predictions of simple Higgs theory. 100% guaranteed.”
Don Lincoln1:04:22
The episode
Lex Fridman PodcastBiggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497
Don Lincoln · Particle Physicist, Fermilab
1:21:37of 2:53:43 · May 29
