Daniel Whiteson

And you do enough collisions, eventually the universe will show you the rarest of rare things that it can make.

You know, what's on its secret menu of what it can do.

The things that I want to know, like what is the smallest thing?

What is everything made out of?

What is the heaviest thing?

And so it's exciting to be at CERN.

It's also really fun.

Like the cafeteria at CERN is filled with people from all over the world.

You hear like Italian and English and Japanese and Romanian and people are eating all sorts of weird foods.

And probably the best summer of my life I spent as a student at CERN when I was very, very young.

Really?

Yeah.

Hanging out with a bunch of Italians who taught me Italian and how to cook and bake and make pizza and

and drinking with the Czechs.

And it's just a wonderful, wonderful place.

It's open, it's collaborative.

CERN was built after World War II as an effort to like, hey, let's connect scientists from around the world so we're all humanizing each other and we're not like building weapons of mass destruction to point at each other, right?

It's all about peace and science and harmony.

And there's arguments, for sure.

And you also, it's fun to learn how different people argue.