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Physics of the Internet

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 25, 2024 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about how our understanding of physics is central to making the internet work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listener Questions 54: String cosmology, cosmic strings, and alien numbers

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 23, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected]   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Can element 115 be used for anti-gravity?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 18, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about real science of element 115 and whether it aligns with the spectacular story of anti-gravity alien ships at Area 51. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listener Questions 53: Strong force, primordial atoms and infinities

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 16, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How metallic is the Sun?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 11, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge explore the enduring mystery of how much heavy metal sits in our Sun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listener Questions 52

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about aliens, answer a question from a high school class, and advise a listener about destroying the moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Are physics and religion in harmony or conflict?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 04, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel talks to Rabbi Jack Schlacter, a physicist at Los Alamos, about the movie Oppenheimer and the connections and conflicts between physics and judaism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The most promising particle physics anomalies

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 02, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel talks to Harry Cliff, author of the new book "Space Oddities", about the most intriguing unexplained particle physics experiments and what they might mean.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listener Questions 51

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the speed of light, entanglement and time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What happened to M33's black hole?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 21, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How does electricity work?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 19, 2024 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Physics of Chocolate

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 14, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 12, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 07, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 2) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - March 05, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 1) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Are there charm quarks in the proton?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 29, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the cozy story of the proton might need to be updated to describe all of its true charm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Why is quantum gravity so hard?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 27, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What is cold welding?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 22, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How is general relativity wrong?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 20, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 15, 2024 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 13, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Kelly analyze recent claims of the recovery of iron spheres from interstellar meteors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Can we see inside things using muons?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 08, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about the weirdness of muons and how they can let us see inside things. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Why do some galaxies have bars?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 06, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge explain what we know about the bars at the center of galaxies, and what mysteries they might hide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What is quantum relativity?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - February 01, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Katie grapple with an effort to explain how quantum mechanics could arise from relativity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Were all the forces once one?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - January 30, 2024 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge explore whether the fundamental forces can be linked together, and whether they all acted as one in the early Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What is the dark flow?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - January 25, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the whole Universe is in motion, and what could be pulling on it See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - January 23, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Ask your [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What are octonions?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - January 18, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about super complex numbers and how they might hold the secrets of the Universe.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's hidden inside planets?

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - January 16, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel talks to Prof. Sabine Stanley about what's happening inside planets, and how that helps us understand what's out there. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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