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
Special 200th episode!
What happened in the first 200 microseconds of the Universe? What can you see within 200 light years from Earth?
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Did the XENON experiment just discover a weird axion?
Recent results from the XENON experiment could be the first hint of something groundbreaking... or it could be nothing.
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How did supermassive black holes get so big?
The gargantuan black holes at the centers of galaxies seem impossibly large. How did they grow so large in the short history of our Universe?
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The Marvelous Mystery of the Muon Magnetic Moment
Can physicists discover new particles by watching how muons wiggle in magnetic fields?
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Is dark matter hot?
Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know if it's hot (or not!)
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How was the Higgs boson discovered?
Hear the story of the multi-decade trans-Atlantic rivalry that led to the Higgs boson discovery.
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What are quasi-particles
Daniel and Jorge talk about phonons, magnons, excitons, anyons and explainons.
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Can neutrinos explain why we have matter?
Daniel and Jorge explore how the new DUNE experiment could unravel secrets of neutrins... and the Universe!
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Listener Questions 11: Deep questions about gravity and particles.
Can gravity waves kill you? Why do we have particles? Can fission power a star?
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Does the Universe need dark matter?
Is it possible that dark matter doesn't exist? Could it just be a misunderstanding of gravity?
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Did NASA discover a parallel Universe?
The amazing ANITA experiment and the bizarre neutrinos they discovered
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Do black holes destroy information?
Daniel and Jorge tackle the paradox of black holes: do they destroy information or store it forever?
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What is the axion?
Why do scientists think there might be a wispy mysterious particle? And why did they give it such a silly name?
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The SF Universe of Alastair Reynolds "Revenger"
Daniel and Jorge talk about solar sails, artificial planets and black holes!
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What are primordial black holes?
Could mysterious black holes have been formed in the first second of the Universe?
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Is the impossible drive possible?
Daniel and Jorge dissect the "EMDrive", explain how it's supposed to work and whether it ever might.
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The long race for the top quark
Daniel and Jorge talk about the twenty-year race to find the top quark, that came down to the wire.
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Where in the solar system might we find life? (ft. Katie Goldin of Creature Features)
Katie Goldin, host of the Creature Features pod, visits to talk about what's needed for life and where in the solar system it might be hiding.
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How do you navigate in deep space?
Daniel and Jorge talk about a potential new GPS: the Galactic Positioning System.
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Can stars eat other stars?
Can a Thorne-Zytkow object, a neutron star inside another star, actually exist? Did we find one?
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