Daniel Whiteson

It's like, you know, you've been studying an elephant's tail for a thousand years and somebody says, oh, there's more to the elephant.

Are you going to say, oh, the rest of the elephant is probably made out of tails?

Like, no, it's not.

This is an opportunity to say, oh, the whole context of my understanding is wrong.

I need to like zoom out and think about other ways of things can come together.

This is an opportunity for a revolution in physics.

So it's fine to start there and to say maybe dark matter is a particle and maybe it's just one particle.

We should look for that.

It's worth doing.

But to me, the most likely thing is that it's something we can't even imagine.

It's something that's not a particle.

It's another kind of matter altogether, right?

Why should the whole universe follow the pattern of this tiny little slice of the universe that's made out of atoms?

That's just 5% of what the universe is.

More likely it's something very, very different.

Why isn't philosophy more tightly coupled with physics?

I don't understand that because inevitably you have to talk about philosophy, don't you?

I mean, I know you do, but most physicists don't even want to go there.

It's a great question.

I think physics and philosophy are deeply intertwined, right?