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Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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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.

Location:

United States

Description:

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.

Language:

English


Episodes

Listener Questions 51

3/28/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the speed of light, entanglement and time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:50:25

What happened to M33's black hole?

3/26/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:46:17

Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!

3/21/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:48:40

How does electricity work?

3/19/2024
Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:59:07

Physics of Chocolate

3/14/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:13:49

Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!

3/12/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:50:41

Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)

3/7/2024
Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 2) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:53:17

Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)

3/5/2024
Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 1) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:43:35

Are there charm quarks in the proton?

2/29/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the cozy story of the proton might need to be updated to describe all of its true charm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:49:02

Why is quantum gravity so hard?

2/27/2024
Daniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:58:07

What is cold welding?

2/22/2024
Daniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:46:17

How is general relativity wrong?

2/20/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:57:12

Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes

2/15/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:56:30

Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?

2/13/2024
Daniel and Kelly analyze recent claims of the recovery of iron spheres from interstellar meteors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:54:19

Can we see inside things using muons?

2/8/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about the weirdness of muons and how they can let us see inside things. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:50:33

Why do some galaxies have bars?

2/6/2024
Daniel and Jorge explain what we know about the bars at the center of galaxies, and what mysteries they might hide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:45:33

What is quantum relativity?

2/1/2024
Daniel and Katie grapple with an effort to explain how quantum mechanics could arise from relativity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:58:34

Were all the forces once one?

1/30/2024
Daniel and Jorge explore whether the fundamental forces can be linked together, and whether they all acted as one in the early Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:56:23

What is the dark flow?

1/25/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the whole Universe is in motion, and what could be pulling on it See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:48:34

Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons

1/23/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Ask your questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:47:10