Daniel Whiteson

Is there another particle that gives mass to dark matter?

Maybe.

And dark matter, there's more dark matter than normal matter.

So if there's a dark Higgs, then it's the dominant way you get mass in the universe.

And our Higgs is just like a little bit of the story.

And so that could really help us understand the bigger picture of how particles get mass and the whole context.

You know, I don't want people to go away thinking, oh, our theory of the universe is wrong.

It describes what we've seen and it works really, really well.

But philosophically, we have no proof that it's the only description, the unique description.

And we couldn't one day replace it with something better and deeper that works in a broader context to describe experiments we haven't done yet.

What's your gut tell you about dark matter?

My gut tells me that it's alien to us.

That it's something we have not even considered.

You know, the idea that dark matter is a particle

It's a fine starting place.

Look, everything we've ever seen is a particle.

Why shouldn't dark matter be a particle?

Sure.

All right, we can start there.

But I wouldn't bet on that because everything we've ever seen is a tiny slice of the universe.