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

2026-04-20 Entertainment
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Watch the Daniel Whiteson podcast NOW by joining The Why Files Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/thewhyfiles Tune in tomorrow at 12 PM PT for the full podcast release! 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.

Top Comments (10)

@Butterb0ne 2026-04-20

Why should I use my money to fund research when the results are going to be hidden from me by classification?

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@makjanks 2026-04-20

Fear the crabcat

127 15 replies
@TurboBMRProjectLove 2026-04-20

i hope you asked him about that ritual that was done at CERN

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@300blackout9 2026-04-20

These are the dudes that created the Mandela Affect bring back my time line!!!

57 16 replies
@ImARealHumanPerson 2026-04-20

I sat down with this and got ready to go before I noticed it was a preview 😅

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@researchtwins 2026-04-20

So we need more particle physics research and not affordable housing?

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@dejamike88 2026-04-20

Im not smart by any means, he said at the beginning that they have to “throw out” some data because there are just too much too analyze, would it be a big break thru once quantum computers get more “sophisticated” or they are already using quantum computers??

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@teecee14 2026-04-20

Thank you Aj!!! This last 6 months have been rough going through cancer and treatments. I got out of the hospital last Monday and my levels are up and I'm doing phenomenal. I rewatched so many episodes and it got me through a rough hospital stay. I been a sub since before 100k. I knew you would blow up and told everyone that would listen. Again, thank you Aj, you got me through a rough time and you need to know how important what you do, really is. I'm 44 and have a wife and 3 kids from Long Island, ny and nyc. So happy to see you blowing up AJ, I knew it!!!!

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@ededos478 2026-04-20

I've come to distrist anyone associated with CERN. The only reason I intend on listening to this is to see if AJ asks this dude about the suspicious nature of this organization, as well as the Mandela Effect.

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@Akum4Kam15ama 2026-04-20

Us as a species should be finding every way to preserving this planet & for humanity to explore space. Thats the two things us as a species should be most focused on. Everything else thats the world's issues i feel will fall in place to be fixed once when humanity as a whole works on those two things.

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