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 boson stars?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether its possible to have stars made out of bosons!
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about the smell of space, the electroweak force and spotting distant aliens.
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What are globular clusters?
Daniel and guest host Katie Goldin explore the mysteries of these weird, ancient blobs of stars.
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What is a Quantum Dot?
Daniel and Jorge break down the quantum world into tiny dots that have amazing properties.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about diamond rain on Jupiter, travel near the speed of light and the tilt of Uranus.
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Can we see evidence of a previous Universe?
Daniel and Jorge explain Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology and what it means about the origins of the Universe.
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Can we build an invisibility cloak?
Daniel and guest host Kelly Weinersmith break down the science and science-fiction of invisibility.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about hawking radiation, 5G networks and wireless phone chargers!
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What's a Time Crystal?
Daniel and guest host Katie Goldin talk about the crazy and real science of time crystals
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What's the biggest star in the Universe?
Daniel and Jorge talk about mind-blowingly huge balls of burning gas.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about closed time-like curves, force fields, and the lifetime of the Earth's magnetic field
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How do we know the mass of stars?
Daniel talks about how astronomers can measure or deduce the mass of a star, and why it controls its fate.
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Listener Questions 14: Black holes, aliens and zombies!
Daniel and Jorge talk about what kind of elements are inside a black hole, how to respond to aliens and whether physicists are useful or useless in a zombie apocalypse.
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Can a planet be bigger than its star?
What counts as a planet and is it possible for it to outweigh or outsize its parent star?
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about how to read science headlines, gravitational slingshots, lorentz symmetry and the speed of light!
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Can we see planets in other galaxies?
Daniel and Jorge talk about how astronomers are trying to detect planets in far away galaxies!
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about a donut Universe, mirrors and black holes!
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Why can’t we see quantum effects in everyday objects?
Daniel and Jorge talk about quantum decoherence and why big things don't act like quantum particles.
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Is space filled with infinite energy?
Daniel and Jorge tackle the confusing conundrum of the Casimir Effect and quantum zero-point energy
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about energy conservation, inflation and space dust!
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