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Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

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What happened to M33's black hole?

Daniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33

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2024-03-26
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Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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2024-03-21
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How does electricity work?

Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge.

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2024-03-19
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Physics of Chocolate

Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate.

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2024-03-14
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Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes.

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2024-03-12
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Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)

Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 2)

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2024-03-07
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Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)

Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 1)

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2024-03-05
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Are there charm quarks in the proton?

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the cozy story of the proton might need to be updated to describe all of its true charm.

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2024-02-29
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Why is quantum gravity so hard?

Daniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other.

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2024-02-27
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What is cold welding?

Daniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting!

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2024-02-22
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How is general relativity wrong?

Daniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe.

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2024-02-20
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Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice.

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2024-02-15
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Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?

Daniel and Kelly analyze recent claims of the recovery of iron spheres from interstellar meteors.

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2024-02-13
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Can we see inside things using muons?

Daniel and Jorge talk about the weirdness of muons and how they can let us see inside things.

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2024-02-08
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Why do some galaxies have bars?

Daniel and Jorge explain what we know about the bars at the center of galaxies, and what mysteries they might hide.

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2024-02-06
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What is quantum relativity?

Daniel and Katie grapple with an effort to explain how quantum mechanics could arise from relativity.

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2024-02-01
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Were all the forces once one?

Daniel and Jorge explore whether the fundamental forces can be linked together, and whether they all acted as one in the early Universe.

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2024-01-30
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What is the dark flow?

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the whole Universe is in motion, and what could be pulling on it

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2024-01-25
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Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Ask your [email protected]

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2024-01-23
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What are octonions?

Daniel and Jorge talk about super complex numbers and how they might hold the secrets of the Universe. 

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2024-01-18
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What's hidden inside planets?

Daniel talks to Prof. Sabine Stanley about what's happening inside planets, and how that helps us understand what's out there.

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2024-01-16
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How do particles carry forces?

Daniel and Jorge push and pull on the simple picture of particles exchanging other particles

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2024-01-11
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How can we find life on other planets?

Daniel talks to Prof. Aomawa Shields, auther of "Life on Other Planets" about the the climate of exoplanets and her unusual path to astronomy.

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2024-01-09
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What are land tides?

Daniel and Jorge talk about how tidal forces shape the Earth itself and the life on it.

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2024-01-04
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What is a symmetron?

Daniel and Jorge talk about creative ways to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe. 

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2024-01-02
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Does hot or cold water freeze faster?

Daniel and Jorge get the chills when they discover how little we know about water.

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2023-12-28
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Listener Questions 46: Mountains, ether and time!

Daniel and Jorge answer questions about reviving old theories, building tall mountains, and passing time.

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2023-12-26
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What is the electrical charge of the moon?

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the moon is positive, negative or neutral!

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2023-12-21
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Can planets share an orbit?

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether two planets could share an orbit around a star, or whether there would be too much gravitational squabbling.

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2023-12-19
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What shapes can galaxies take?

Daniel and Jorge talk about the weird, wacky shapes of galaxies and the cosmic story they tell.

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2023-12-14
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What?s the difference between inertial and gravitational mass?

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether there are two or one kind of mass and the massive consequences.

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2023-12-12
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Has our solar system lost any planets?

Daniel and Jorge talk about how instabilities in the early solar system may have ejected an ancient ice giant.

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2023-12-07
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Are there galaxies without dark matter?

Daniel and Jorge discuss how dark matter shapes our Universe and whether it would be possible to have a galaxy without it.

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2023-12-05
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Does quantum mechanics conserve energy?

Daniel and Jorge explore whether basic rules of our Universe are broken at the quantum scale.

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2023-11-30
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Listener Questions 45: Gravity and Black holes

Daniel and Jorge venture to the edge of human knowledge about black holes, gravity and magnetic fields.

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2023-11-28
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The Science Fiction Universe of "Invasion"

Daniel and Jorge talk about alien arrival, as depicted on the show "Invasion" and Daniel talks to two of the writers, Tatiana Suarez Pico and Aditi Brennan Kapil about writing science fiction.

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2023-11-23
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Who was the first scientist?

Daniel talkes to Prof. James Poskett about how the history of science has much more nuance and global participation than the standard mythology.

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2023-11-21
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The Science Fiction Universe of "Venemous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman

Daniel and Kelly chat with Ned Beauman, author of "Venemous Lumpsucker" a cautionary tale about applying free market strategies to preventing extinction.

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2023-11-16
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Why is there quantum uncertainty?

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with one of the fuzziest concepts in quantum mechanics

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2023-11-14
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What did the early Universe sound like?

Daniel and Jorge take you back to the early Universe and the sound bubbles that seeded everything.

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2023-11-09
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Can we settle space? Should we? Have we really thought this through?

Daniel talks to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith about whether humanity is ready to move into the stars.

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2023-11-07
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What's the matter with matter in the Universe?

Daniel and Jorge dig into the history of matter, dark matter and dark energy, explaining how they used to have very different ratios.

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2023-11-02
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Listener Questions 44: Deep questions from listeners like you!

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the Earth's tilt, steampunk atoms and fundamental pixels of rad.

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2023-10-31
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Which force(s) power the human senses?

Daniel and Katie talk about how we experience the Universe and what physics underlies our senses.

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2023-10-26
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Could we see moons around exoplanets?

Daniel and Jorge are over the moon about the possibility of spotting alien moons.

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2023-10-24
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Could we seed exoplanets with life?

Daniel and Kelly wrangle with the tricky science and ethics of sending microbes to distant worlds.

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2023-10-19
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Do Black Holes Have Hair?

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the hairy question of what's happening inside and on the surface of black holes. 

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2023-10-17
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Was the interstellar visitor oumuamua natural or artificial?

Daniel and Jorge talk about the claims that 'Oumuamua might have been alien space junk.

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2023-10-12
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Could dark matter be making flashes of light?

Daniel and Jorge break down a new study that looks for dark matter using both gravity and light.

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2023-10-10
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Where is all the missing matter?

Daniel and Jorge talk about the effort to track down all the quarks in the Universe.

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2023-10-05
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