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 is the Physics of life?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Sara Imari Walker, author of "Life as No One Knows it" about what life is and what aliens might look like.
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What is an impossible color?
Daniel and Jorge explore the edges of our colorful experience of the Universe.
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How to think like a physicist?
Daniel and Jorge discuss whether physicists think about the world differently, and how that makes them more or less useful.
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What is membrane theory?
Daniel and Katie use their p-branes to explore a theory of everything build on vibrating membranes.
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Listener Questions 64: Phase of the Universe, particle interactions and Universe-sized black holes!
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Do black holes have magnetic fields?
Daniel and Jorge try to resist the magnetic attraction of the mysteries of black holes, and fail.
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Listener Questions 63: Hawking radiation, mass, and anti-strings
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How long is a photon?
Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the tricky question of the length of a photon, and end up talking about hotdogs and meatballs.
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Could humans live in the clouds of Venus?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Guillermo Sohnlein about life in the Venutian clouds
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Listener Questions 62: Single photons, moon gold and particle interactions.
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Listener Questions 61.0158: Black holes, gold asteroids and gravitational waves in time!
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Do neutrinos get redshifted?
Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens to neutrinos as the Universe expands.
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Is the length of a day changing?
Daniel and Katie spin a tale of how the velocity of the Earth's surface is changing under our feet.
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Listener Questions 60,491: Mini solar systems, greek physics and black holes!
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Can supernovas cause ice ages?
Daniel and Jorge talk about how the greatest cosmic fireballs might trigger ice ages here on Earth.
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Listener Questions 59: Interstellar probes and fractional electrons
Daniel and Jorge answer questions about travel to and from other stars and whether scientists have split the electron.
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Does dark matter have an anti-particle?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the relationship between matter, dark matter and anti-matter!
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Why don't we have nuclear powered airplanes?
Daniel and Kelly talk about whether planes could be powered by nuclear reactors and whether that would be a bad idea, or a very bad idea.
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Listener Questions 58: Donuts, disaster and discoveries!
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The science fiction Universe of "Constellation"
Daniel talks to Peter Harness, screenwriter for "Constellation", about the quantum rules of his fictional Universe.
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