Daniel Whiteson

But that's one reason why when I got into physics, I decided to work on something that could not be turned into a weapon.

Like, as far as I know, nothing we develop at CERN could be used to kill anybody.

Because developing weapons of mass destruction and pointing them at civilian populations, I respect that my parents worked on that.

Sure.

Somebody has to do it, but it's morally complicated.

It is.

I wish we didn't mess with that at all.

Yeah.

But they came to it from a funny path because they actually met in Israel when they were Orthodox Jews.

My father was a rabbi originally, and then he lost his faith, and we moved to the U.S., and he went back to school, became an engineer, and then we went to the lab, and

So he was around computers, my mom was around computers, and they brought one home, and I started playing with it and got hooked.

You know, the power of this thing, and you could connect to people from around the world.

It's intoxicating.

It's intoxicating.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

It's a very similar experience.

I think I ran into a computer at a furniture store, and they were using it as a prop.

Wow.

And they just let me sit there for hours.