# Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Lex Clips
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyjMQUXra74
- **Дата:** 04.06.2026
- **Длительность:** 3:03
- **Просмотры:** 1,627
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/52264

## Описание

Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M3Vdl6DRkU
Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/cv9845-sb
See below for guest bio, links, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

*GUEST BIO:*
Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics.

*CONTACT LEX:*
*Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey
*AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama
*Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring
*Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact

*EPISODE LINKS:*
Don's Facebook: https://facebook.com/Dr.Don.Lincoln/
Don's Website: https://drdonlincoln.com/
Don's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4nHeNiF
Don's YouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/3PCIW67
Don's X: https://x.com/DrDonLincoln
Don's Books: https://amzn.to/4uYbkOZ
Don's Great Courses: https://shop.thegreatcourses.com/don-

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 03:00) []

It's very clear that nuclear fusion and nuclear fission will unlock huge amount of energy that's required for a civilization to flourish, but that's almost like near-term. Mhm. Longer-term, you can think about things like we'll talk about dark energy crisis and antimatter. Maybe if you figure out some of the mysteries around antimatter, that too would lead to energy sources, how to produce energy. That too might lead to counterintuitive propulsion systems — Mhm. for us humans to travel through the universe. Now, right now it seems far-fetched, too expensive, too complicated, too difficult, but breakthroughs in the fundamental theoretical physics might lead us to unlock some incredible energy sources, incredible technologies that uh will uh allow humans to explore the universe. And of course, we should also mention that as always with technologies, it's a double-edged sword. It will most likely lead to the development of more dangerous weapons or other sources of harm. And then we uh as a civilization kind of have to walk that uh line and hope we figure out how to do more good than bad with the technologies we build. — Right. But we have to really remember while people worry about nuclear weapons, which are admittedly very dangerous, and even nuclear power, which has waste that has to be dealt with, what science is doing is working out finding power that nature has presented to us. This is not new. Fire is like that, too. Fire can burn down your house or it can cook your steak. Power is like that, and that's just something that we have to understand as humanity, and that's why this needs to be a you know, when we talk about science, it has to be a broad conversation by all of society because what scientists can do is figure out how the world works. Society has to figure out how we wish to apply that or not apply that. Also, solving the mysteries and the puzzles of the universe in itself is effing awesome. It is. So, I mean that's the thing that makes us human in part is looking at a thing and saying, "How does this work? " Sure, together uh a bunch of apes get together like poke the thing, kind of shake the thing, and then over time you have rockets going out into space. You build roads and bridges. You build the internet.