Daniel Whiteson

And when we wanna know, when we are driven by our curiosity, we're gonna figure this stuff out.

And anytime somebody tells you this is impossible to figure out, that just means we haven't been smart enough yet or the right kid hasn't been inspired yet.

And that's one reason why I want people to understand what we don't know about science because there's some kid out there who's thinking, oh, science is mostly figured out.

I'm going to go and be a rock star instead.

No, I want that genius to come crack these problems, to be inspired by the mysteries.

but you know, we have a path forward already.

Like the earliest thing we've seen in the universe is not from T equals zero.

The moment of plank density, it's like 400,000 years later.

That's when the universe became transparent.

Universe was hot and dense, like the center of the sun.

So if you made a photon, it just got reabsorbed, right?

Like if you turned on a flashlight in the center of the sun, it's not, the beam is not going to get to earth, right?

The sun is opaque.

The universe was opaque and then it became transparent and

And light created right at that moment when the universe became transparent is still around.

We can see it.

Incredibly powerful scientifically tells us about the early universe and proves that there was dark matter already back then.

Amazing.

But that's like 400,000 years after the point we're interested in.

How do we go deeper?