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
Listener Questions 44: Deep questions from listeners like you!
Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the Earth's tilt, steampunk atoms and fundamental pixels of rad.
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Which force(s) power the human senses?
Daniel and Katie talk about how we experience the Universe and what physics underlies our senses.
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Could we see moons around exoplanets?
Daniel and Jorge are over the moon about the possibility of spotting alien moons.
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Could we seed exoplanets with life?
Daniel and Kelly wrangle with the tricky science and ethics of sending microbes to distant worlds.
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Do Black Holes Have Hair?
Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the hairy question of what's happening inside and on the surface of black holes.
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Was the interstellar visitor oumuamua natural or artificial?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the claims that 'Oumuamua might have been alien space junk.
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Could dark matter be making flashes of light?
Daniel and Jorge break down a new study that looks for dark matter using both gravity and light.
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Where is all the missing matter?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the effort to track down all the quarks in the Universe.
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How does gravity escape a black hole?
Daniel and Katie warp their minds around the question of what gravitational information really is and what we know about a black hole.
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Listener Questions 43: Light, heat and vision
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send in your questions to [email protected]
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Great, Big Questions about the Universe
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from young people about the Universe, to mark Jorge's new book!
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How important is cosmic dust?
Daniel and Jorge dust off their knowledge of the tiny-but-mighty grains of space dust which help form our world and block our view of the cosmos.
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Explain the Universe: Behind the Scenes
To mark the 500th episode, Daniel gives a tour of the podcast's history and production process, including candid interviews with the co-hosts, Sean Carroll and other podcasters.
How big is the smallest habitable planet?
Daniel and Kelly talk about what it would take to live away from Earth, and whether a small planet could host humanity.
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Why do moving objects look shorter?
Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the weird consequences and hard questions of special relativity!
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How do we measure the Higgs boson mass?
Daniel and Jorge talk about why the Higgs mass is such an important number and how physicists weigh such a fleeting particle.
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Listener Questions 42: Life, the Universe and Ghosts!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected]
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Why do scientists do simulations?
Daniel and Jorge explain how simulation lets scientists answer new kinds of questions about the Universe.
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Have we seen more or fewer gravitational waves than expected?
Daniel and Katie talk about what physicists expected when they turned on a new kind of ear for listening to the Universe.
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Why is space so flat?
Daniel and Jorge talk about what it means for space to be curved, how we measure it and why the answer is a puzzle.
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