Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Scientists Daniel and Kelly cannot stop talking about our amazing, wonderful, weird Universe! Each episode is a fun, easy-to-understand, and in-depth explanation of topics in science, from particles to black holes to moon colonies to ecosystems to parasites and everything else in the Universe!
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 738
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
What hidden symmetry is controlling the Universe?
Daniel and Jorge dive deep into quantum theory and explain gauge symmetry, the foundation of all modern physics.
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Do fission reactors occur naturally?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether fission reactors are found in Nature
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Does the Universe need cause and effect?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether things have to happen in a definite order, or not!
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Does the weak force attract or repel?
Daniel and Jorge break down this question that stumped Daniel at his public office hours!
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Is the Universe a hologram?
Could the 3D entire Universe be a projection from a 2D surface somewhere?
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Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes and higgs fields!
Daniel and Jorge dip the french fries of knowledge into the mysterious condiments of the Universe and answer questions from listeners like you!
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Can you be motionless in space?
Everything is moving and spinning -- is it possible to be totally still in the Universe?
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Why don't we have electric airplanes?
Daniel and Katie talk about how to get a battery-powered plane into the sky.
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What will the Giant Magellan Telescope show us?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the exciting science that will be done by this new super telescope.
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What is a space hurricane?
Daniel and Jorge swirl their minds together into a stormy mix of puns and physics and tackle this spacey topic.
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What's a proton made of?
Daniel and Jorge crack open the basic building block of matter and find.. anti-matter!
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What if our particles were different?
Daniel and Jorge consider how the Universe would be different if our particles had different properties
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What is a light cone?
Daniel and Jorge explain how the speed of light limits how events play out in the Universe.
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How many particles has the Large Hadron Collider discovered?
Daniel and Jorge reveal that the Large Hadron Collider has found much more than just the Higgs boson!
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Why is the three-body problem so hard?
Daniel and Jorge talk about why something so simple is one of the oldest and hardest problems in physics.
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How many stars can a solar system have?
Daniel and Jorge talk about binary star systems, trinary star systems and totally bonkers star systems with even more stars!
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Listener Questions 16: pictures from space, antimatter stars and Jupiter-eating aliens!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Have questions? Send them to [email protected]
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Can we use the galaxy as a gravitational wave detector?
Daniel explains how pulsars can be used as a galaxy-sized physics experiment.
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How does a plasma thruster work?
Will a plasma-based spaceship engine let humanity zoom between planets?
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Can you outrun a flash of light?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether its possible to outrun the fastest thing in the Universe
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