Daniel Whiteson

Maybe we just... We can't perceive it.

Yeah.

It's possible, but I will always bet on humans to figure this stuff out.

We've discovered dark matter even though it was hard.

It was not obvious, right?

This is why it took so long to figure out that dark matter is even there.

Now we have lots of very convincing evidence that something is there, some kind of matter.

We don't know what it's made out of.

We don't know how it works.

Something is out there.

Something is gravitating.

And I think we'll figure it out.

I don't know how, but I would hate to say that it's always going to be a mystery, you know, because that undersells our children, our children's children, our future, that nobody will ever be smart enough.

It's possible, of course, and I have to admit that it's possible, but I hope that's not the case.

That would be very sad.

these are a lot of fascinating theories and i have a concern that's shared by most of my audience that there's some kind of institutional gatekeeping with these ideas with very i hate outside the box i had a cliche but these kinds of new ways of thinking that you're talking about is is there gatekeeping are there people saying we we this is this is physics and that's that uh-huh

Well, you know, I think there are structural issues with academia, you know, and with science, things that encourage people to follow up on existing ideas.

There's also structural things that encourage people to go out on a limb.

There are Nobel prizes for people who make crazy discoveries that overturn everything.

There are lots of awards.