
Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door
From The Why Files: Operation Podcast
Published 4/20/2026

From The Why Files: Operation Podcast
Published 4/20/2026
The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider —…