We have no idea about the universe | Daniel Whiteson | TEDxSanFrancisco

There are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Physicist Daniel Whiteson discusses how we’re in an age of precision ignorance when we know very well that we know very little about the universe. The first step in making discoveries is embracing our ignorance. Whiteson is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine. He is also the co-author of “We Have No Idea,” a light-hearted look at the open mysteries of the universe, and co-host of the podcast “Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe.” Whiteson’s research is in the field of experimental high energy physics. He is interested in probing the structure of matter and the nature of its interactions at the very smallest scales, to understand the fundamental nature of our universe. Whiteson is part of the ATLAS collaboration, which built, maintained, and collects data from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, This is where the Higgs Boson was discovered. Filmed at #TEDxSanFrancisco #DareToKnow on October 3rd, 2019, a