Daniel Whiteson

Yeah, well, at some point, you just keep getting smaller and smaller rocks, or at some point, is it stopping a rock and it's something else, right?

And I just want to see where my brain goes.

I'm more interested in the foundational, fundamental questions of things, because to me, it sets the context of our lives and why everything is this certain way.

And so I wanted to get down to the nitty gritty, yeah, from a very early age.

And so to me, the Large Hadron Collider is like the ultimate rock smasher.

Of course.

So you've always been interested in the building blocks.

Oh, yeah.

Even before you even knew what they were.

Yeah.

That's really interesting.

And I feel like everybody has a question.

A question where if you could speak to an oracle or to God or to advanced aliens and say,

And they give you one opportunity to learn something about the universe.

Everybody has a question that they want to know the answer to.

And it's different.

The marvelous thing about human curiosity is that everybody has their own question.

You know, that's why some people are working at particle colliders because they want to know what's the smallest thing.

And other people are building telescopes to look for aliens because they want to know, are we alone?

Or somebody else is like sloshing through the rainforest, you know, trying to understand how spiders make their webs or whatever.