Most people who watch football can understand his day job without too much difficulty. As a linebacker and member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ special teams, he runs around on the field and tackles people.

His other work is a little trickier.

“I don’t really have that many conversations about my work outside of football,” says Trevor Hoyte. “I keep it brief and say, ‘I’m doing physics and doing research.’ ”

That’s probably for the best unless he’s at a cocktail party with a bunch of scientists who have a whole lot of letters behind their name. Because for the rest of us, let’s just say it’s a tad complicated.

While studying astrophysics at Carleton University — and then after graduation, when he worked in research — the 27-year-old was part of the DEAP-3600 project. Pronounced Deep-3600

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