The Why Files: Operation Podcast Review

This is my 62nd podcast. It is currently ranked 55. The episode I listened to was released April 20. It was titled, "Basement: Daniel Whiteson. CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door." After listening to the last podcast it was somewhat refreshing to listen to people talking who have some brain cells. Whiteson is a researcher on CERN's Large Hadron Collider. They have a machine that smashes protons together every 24 nanoseconds. They are looking for when a different than expected outcome happens from colliding protons. They talked a bunch about aliens and if they met us how we could learn from each other. Whiteson talked about a book he is writing where there are dark matter aliens who are already here but we don't know it. Whiteson is into philosophy and he says more scientists should consider philosophy as there are a lot of interesting scientific philosophical questions. I give this show a 4/5 for the interesting conversation. I minus one point for the host sincerely believing that we live in a simulation. I just think that has to be one of the least plausible explanations for things.