Daniel Whiteson

Right.

The same separation, right?

It's the same problem.

Why are these things so separated?

And so people wonder like, well, is there a reason?

Is there like an explanation?

It's sort of like if you look at a coin and you don't know that there's two sides of the same coin.

Somebody shows you heads, somebody shows you tails, and you're like, it's weird.

They have the same shape and the same size.

It's a simple explanation is, oh, they're two sides of the same coin, right?

It's just one thing, not two separate things that happen to overlap, that happen to have the same size.

So we're wondering if the hierarchy problem has a similar explanation, like,

Yes, we add up a bunch of big numbers, and then we subtract up a bunch of big numbers.

It's interesting they match almost perfectly.

Maybe there's an explanation there.

Maybe they're just two sides of the same coin, and that's a simpler explanation.

So far, all of our explanations for that have failed.

Our favorite explanation is called supersymmetry, and it says just that, that all these numbers have to match all those numbers because there's a symmetry.

The universe demands it.

They're two sides of the same coin.