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
How was radiation discovered?
X-rays, U-rays, and cosmic rays! Hear the story for how we came to understand that our world is filled with invisible dangers.
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Are there centaurs in outer space?
Centaurs are real, but not on Earth. Daniel and Jorge talk about the weird objects astronomers call a "space centaur"
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Is there matter that is not made of particles?
Is it possible that matter could be made of something that's not particles?
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What will the DragonFly mission find on Titan?
NASA is building an awesome drone to fly around the surface of Saturn's moon. What will it find?
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What's the fastest spinning thing in the Universe?
Part of their "Extreme Universe" series, Daniel and Jorge make your head spin with all of the crazy spinning objects in the Universe.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about the size of the Universe, what's in intergalactic space and why gravity dominates the Universe.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about dark matter, black holes and particle colliders
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What happened in the dark ages of the Universe?
Before the stars and galaxies formed, the Universe was dark and foggy for hundreds of millions of years!
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Can you undress a black hole?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether it's possible to observe a "naked singularity"
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The Sticky Story of the Gluon's Discovery
What is the gluon and how was it discovered? Daniel and Jorge take us through the dramatic events.
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What's it like to fall into a black hole?
Take a cosmic field trip with Daniel and Jorge, as they guide you on a thought experiment into the heart of the most mysterious objects in the Universe.
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Listener Questions 13: Space water, wormhole colliders and boxes of dark matter
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The SF Universe of Max Barry
In Max Barry's new novel "Providence", humanity runs into aliens. It doesn't go well.
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What's the Oldest Thing in the Universe?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the age of stars, galaxies, black holes and more!
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The surprising shape of the Milky Way
How do we know the shape of our galaxy, since we're stuck in the middle of it?
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How to land a robot on an asteroid
NASA sent Osiris-Rex to scoop a cup of dirt from an asteroid ... using a pogo stick!
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The mysterious sources of the Van Allen radiation belts
Daniel and Jorge talk about the strange belts of particles surrounding the Earth, and the South Atlantic Anomaly
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What if the Earth Stopped Spinning
What makes planets spin, and what would happen if they stopped?
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The Quantum Physics of Solar Panels
Daniel and Jorge break down the physics and engineering behind solar panels
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A discounted dark matter discovery
Why do particle physicists discount the beautiful signal of dark matter from the DAMA experiment?
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