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.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 639
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
What are sterile neutrinos?
Daniel and Jorge talk about a new stealthy kind of neutrino that might neaten up the mess left by all of the other neutrinos.
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Why is math so important for physics?
Daniel talks to mathematician Steve Strogatz about why calculus seems to describe the Universe so well.
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How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?
Daniel and Jorge blow their own minds talking about the faster-than-light expansion of the Universe
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Can you send messages without particles?
Daniel and Jorge talk about ingenious quantum tricks to send information without actual particles.
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How do planets get rings?
Daniel and Katie talk about planetary rings and what they tell us about the history of the solar system.
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Can you make matter out of pure electrons?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the quest to build a crystal out of only electrons.
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What are the most common elements in the Universe?
Daniel and Kelly talk about how elements were made in the early Universe, what processes are making more of them today, and why some elements are more common than others.
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Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseball
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]
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How dangerous is nuclear waste?
Daniel talks to experts about the waste produced by nuclear reactors, the dangers, risks and options.
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What's up with Iapetus?
Daniel and Jorge dissect the history of this mysterious solar system object.
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Can you communicate with neutrinos?
Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails.
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The Science of "The Spare Man"
Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man"
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What's it like to be an alien?
Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate.
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Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us.
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Why does physics even work?
Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand.
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What is negative temperature?
Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!
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Is math the language of the Universe?
Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered.
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What are quantum glasses?
Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses.
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What will the Lucy mission teach us?
Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins.
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Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?
Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler!
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