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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door

The Why Files: Operation Podcast · Apr 20, 2026 · 3:24:16

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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.



DANIEL LINKS

sites.uci.edu/daniel

X - @DanielWhiteson

Podcast - Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe
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