Our universe is a bit weird, says James Beacham. And he should know: As a particle physicist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider he carries out cutting-edge research revolving around the very essence of what the universe is made of. Together with podcast host Samantha Yarwood, he talks about nature's love for statistical distributions, the most baffling and interesting objects in the universe—black holes—and why everything he does at CERN comes down to a sliced bagel.
