Hey Daniel, what's the first thing you think about when you see something in space you don't understand?

Well, my first hope is always aliens, but my first thought is that it's probably a boring mistake.

So as a scientist your mind goes straight to the most dramatic explanation?

Yeah, we're all hoping that somebody out there hits the science jackpot.

Everybody wants to find the thing that rocks the world.

Yeah, you know, people might not realize that science is a little bit like playing the lottery.

It's mostly wrong numbers, but occasionally you get lucky.

And you win the alien jackpot? What's the price?

Humanity gets wiped out.

Yeah, maybe, but think about what we might learn along the way in our dying moments.

Hi, I'm Jorge Amigurr, Tuneist, and the creator of PhD comments.

Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist, and I'm constantly on the hunt for something weird inside.

Not in your department in science in general. There's plenty of weird things in your department.

Weird stuff growing where it shouldn't be, but no, I'm looking for weird stuff in the data.

Hoping to win that jackpot. Is your data like it's a scratch of kind or like you make up the numbers?

No, we are just looking at particles smashing together and hoping that something that comes out of it is unexplained, is weird.

It's something that our current theories of physics do not predict.

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