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 does electricity work?
Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge.
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Physics of Chocolate
Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate.
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Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes.
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Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)
Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 2)
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Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)
Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 1)
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Are there charm quarks in the proton?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the cozy story of the proton might need to be updated to describe all of its true charm.
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Why is quantum gravity so hard?
Daniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other.
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What is cold welding?
Daniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting!
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How is general relativity wrong?
Daniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe.
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Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice.
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Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?
Daniel and Kelly analyze recent claims of the recovery of iron spheres from interstellar meteors.
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Can we see inside things using muons?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the weirdness of muons and how they can let us see inside things.
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Why do some galaxies have bars?
Daniel and Jorge explain what we know about the bars at the center of galaxies, and what mysteries they might hide.
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What is quantum relativity?
Daniel and Katie grapple with an effort to explain how quantum mechanics could arise from relativity.
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Were all the forces once one?
Daniel and Jorge explore whether the fundamental forces can be linked together, and whether they all acted as one in the early Universe.
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What is the dark flow?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the whole Universe is in motion, and what could be pulling on it
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Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Ask your [email protected]
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What are octonions?
Daniel and Jorge talk about super complex numbers and how they might hold the secrets of the Universe.
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What's hidden inside planets?
Daniel talks to Prof. Sabine Stanley about what's happening inside planets, and how that helps us understand what's out there.
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How do particles carry forces?
Daniel and Jorge push and pull on the simple picture of particles exchanging other particles
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