Dr. Matthew Szydagis

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That UFO Podcast · Dr Matthew Szydagis: UFOs, Dark Matter & The Science of UAP · 12 May 2026 podcast

But if we want to use an analogy with careers that your audience might be more familiar with, I'm more like an engineer than a mathematician, for example.

A theoretical physicist is more like a pure mathematician, but an experimental physicist is more like an engineer.

So I don't just think ideas or use computers.

I do that too, of course, but I also use wrenches and screwdrivers.

Does that help?

So it's a hypothetical form of matter that has indirect observational evidence for it from astronomy, but no solid direct evidence or identification of what it is.

So we know that there's more mass or more matter than we can see, for example, shining in stars or made of ordinary atoms.

And we have multiple independent pieces of evidence for that from astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.

And so we don't know what it is.

So it's not like, for example, you know, the Higgs boson or a photon or something.

We don't have like a specific target we're aiming for.

We just know there's something out there.

And so I work on the LZ dark matter experiment, which is very mainstream, you know, has nothing to do with UAP.

And I'm sure some of my LZ colleagues are horrified if they know that I go on these UFO podcasts, you know, and talk about, you know, UFOs and UAP, but it's a very mainstream thing.

straight-laced experiment that uses liquid xenon deployed deep underground in order to look for dark matter.

Because the idea is that dark matter could pass through the earth, but could interact rarely with our detector and produce a detectable signal.

So we're just looking for a very rare interaction.

And the reason we use xenon is because it's just a general particle detector.

So we have to go underground to get away from naturally occurring cosmic radiations.

like cosmic rays on the surface of the Earth and other sorts of naturally occurring radiation.

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