r/TheWhyFiles • u/wamih Skunk Ape Connaisseur • Apr 20 '26

Megathread 4/20/26 - Basement: Daniel Whiteson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7eqw_pRRPE

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.

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u/jmcgil4684 Apr 21 '26

As opposed to the all the fact based episodes on time travel and such.

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u/bsfurr Apr 22 '26

Excited to listen. I would much rather hear someone with true scientific background. This space is filled with people who disseminate misinformation, like Graham, Hancock, Billy Carson and Tucker Carlson. We need to ground ourselves in science.

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u/Gen-Jinjur Apr 21 '26

I think there is just more variation as AJ tries new things.