Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe
598 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsA 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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Listener Questions 54: String cosmology, cosmic strings, and alien numbers
April 23, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can element 115 be used for anti-gravity?
April 18, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBDaniel 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.
Listener Questions 53: Strong force, primordial atoms and infinities
April 16, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How metallic is the Sun?
April 11, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBDaniel and Jorge explore the enduring mystery of how much heavy metal sits in our Sun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions 52
April 09, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBDaniel 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.
Are physics and religion in harmony or conflict?
April 04, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBDaniel 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.
The most promising particle physics anomalies
April 02, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBDaniel 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.
Listener Questions 51
March 28, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions about the speed of light, entanglement and time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What happened to M33's black hole?
March 26, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!
March 21, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How does electricity work?
March 19, 2024 05:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBDaniel 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.
Physics of Chocolate
March 14, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!
March 12, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)
March 07, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBDaniel 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.
Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)
March 05, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBDaniel 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.
Are there charm quarks in the proton?
February 29, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBDaniel 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.
Why is quantum gravity so hard?
February 27, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBDaniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is cold welding?
February 22, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBDaniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How is general relativity wrong?
February 20, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes
February 15, 2024 06:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?
February 13, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBDaniel and Kelly analyze recent claims of the recovery of iron spheres from interstellar meteors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can we see inside things using muons?
February 08, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about the weirdness of muons and how they can let us see inside things. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Why do some galaxies have bars?
February 06, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBDaniel 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.
What is quantum relativity?
February 01, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBDaniel and Katie grapple with an effort to explain how quantum mechanics could arise from relativity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Were all the forces once one?
January 30, 2024 06:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBDaniel 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.
What is the dark flow?
January 25, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBDaniel 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.
Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons
January 23, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Ask your [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What are octonions?
January 18, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about super complex numbers and how they might hold the secrets of the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What's hidden inside planets?
January 16, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBDaniel 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.
How do particles carry forces?
January 11, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBDaniel and Jorge push and pull on the simple picture of particles exchanging other particles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How can we find life on other planets?
January 09, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBDaniel talks to Prof. Aomawa Shields, auther of "Life on Other Planets" about the the climate of exoplanets and her unusual path to astronomy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What are land tides?
January 04, 2024 06:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about how tidal forces shape the Earth itself and the life on it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is a symmetron?
January 02, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about creative ways to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Does hot or cold water freeze faster?
December 28, 2023 06:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBDaniel and Jorge get the chills when they discover how little we know about water. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions 46: Mountains, ether and time!
December 26, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBDaniel and Jorge answer questions about reviving old theories, building tall mountains, and passing time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is the electrical charge of the moon?
December 21, 2023 06:00 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about whether the moon is positive, negative or neutral! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can planets share an orbit?
December 19, 2023 06:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about whether two planets could share an orbit around a star, or whether there would be too much gravitational squabbling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What shapes can galaxies take?
December 14, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about the weird, wacky shapes of galaxies and the cosmic story they tell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What’s the difference between inertial and gravitational mass?
December 12, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about whether there are two or one kind of mass and the massive consequences. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Has our solar system lost any planets?
December 07, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBDaniel and Jorge talk about how instabilities in the early solar system may have ejected an ancient ice giant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Are there galaxies without dark matter?
December 05, 2023 06:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBDaniel and Jorge discuss how dark matter shapes our Universe and whether it would be possible to have a galaxy without it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Does quantum mechanics conserve energy?
November 30, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBDaniel and Jorge explore whether basic rules of our Universe are broken at the quantum scale. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listener Questions 45: Gravity and Black holes
November 28, 2023 06:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBDaniel and Jorge venture to the edge of human knowledge about black holes, gravity and magnetic fields. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Science Fiction Universe of "Invasion"
November 23, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBDaniel 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Who was the first scientist?
November 21, 2023 06:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBDaniel talkes to Prof. James Poskett about how the history of science has much more nuance and global participation than the standard mythology. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Science Fiction Universe of "Venemous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman
November 16, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBDaniel and Kelly chat with Ned Beauman, author of "Venemous Lumpsucker" a cautionary tale about applying free market strategies to preventing extinction. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Why is there quantum uncertainty?
November 14, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBDaniel and Jorge wrestle with one of the fuzziest concepts in quantum mechanics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What did the early Universe sound like?
November 09, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBDaniel and Jorge take you back to the early Universe and the sound bubbles that seeded everything. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can we settle space? Should we? Have we really thought this through?
November 07, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBDaniel talks to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith about whether humanity is ready to move into the stars. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What's the matter with matter in the Universe?
November 02, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBDaniel and Jorge dig into the history of matter, dark matter and dark energy, explaining how they used to have very different ratios. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.