Basement: Daniel Whiteson | Dark Matter, Dark Aliens, Dark Physics

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Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the largest machine ever built — where 5,000 scientists are using high-energy collisions to read the universe's secret menu.

He co-hosts the show Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe, co-created an award-winning science show for preschoolers, and recently wrote a book asking whether aliens would even recognize our physics at all.

His work sits at the collision point of experimental science, philosophy, and the biggest unanswered questions in physics — what everything is made of, why gravity is so weak, and whether the universe has a bottom.

#ParticlePhysics #DarkMatter #CERN #AJGentile #danielwhiteson

00:00 — Introduction & Origin Story
36:07 — How the Large Hadron Collider Works
38:34 — The Planck Scale & The Big Bang
50:05 — Neutrinos, Pulsars & Gravitational Waves
58:51 — Life at CERN
01:10:21 — The Hierarchy Problem & The Higgs Boson
01:43:25 — Dark Matter & Dark Aliens
01:55:01 — Physics, Philosophy & Math
02:25:39 — Science Funding & Gatekeeping
02:33:25 — Your Phone Is a Cosmic Ray Detector
02:51:46 — Simulation Theory & Communicating with Aliens
03:13:54 — The Extended Drake Equation
03:36:35 — Warp Drives & One Question for the Aliens

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Executive Producers:
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Producers:
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Research:
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DANIEL LINKS

sites.uci.edu/daniel
X - @DanielWhiteson
Podcast - Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe

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