Hasitha Eranda is a Theoretical Physicist at UC Irvine, California. He did his bachelors at the Department of Physics in the University of Colombo. He is currently working on searching for relic galaxy candidates in N-body cosmological simulations.
You can find more details about his work from this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.09720.pdf
00:00 About Hasitha
02:01 Final year project in UOC
03:07 PhD thesis - Cosmological simulations
05:07 How to be a Theoretical Physicist?
09:09 Thought experiments
12:30 Astronomy Vs Astro-Physics
15:59 Cosmology
18:19 Problems with Science
19:10 importance of LIGO
19:52 About Black Holes
21:58 Problem with models
25:31 Gravity models
32:03 Problems with model fitting
35:36 Quantum gravity
41:06 Science is political
42:01 Numerical simulations
45:50 Big Bang Vs Inflation theory
53:38 Same data, different theories
