Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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.

Episodes

December 7, 2023 47 mins

Daniel and Jorge talk about how instabilities in the early solar system may have ejected an ancient ice giant.

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Daniel and Jorge discuss how dark matter shapes our Universe and whether it would be possible to have a galaxy without it.

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November 30, 2023 49 mins

Daniel and Jorge explore whether basic rules of our Universe are broken at the quantum scale.

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Daniel and Jorge venture to the edge of human knowledge about black holes, gravity and magnetic fields.

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November 23, 2023 62 mins

Daniel and Jorge talk about alien arrival, as depicted on the show "Invasion" and Daniel talks to two of the writers, Tatiana Suarez Pico and Aditi Brennan Kapil about writing science fiction.

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November 21, 2023 55 mins

Daniel talkes to Prof. James Poskett about how the history of science has much more nuance and global participation than the standard mythology.

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Ned Beauman, author of "Venemous Lumpsucker" a cautionary tale about applying free market strategies to preventing extinction.

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November 14, 2023 49 mins

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with one of the fuzziest concepts in quantum mechanics

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November 9, 2023 47 mins

Daniel and Jorge take you back to the early Universe and the sound bubbles that seeded everything.

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Daniel talks to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith about whether humanity is ready to move into the stars.

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Daniel and Jorge dig into the history of matter, dark matter and dark energy, explaining how they used to have very different ratios.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the Earth's tilt, steampunk atoms and fundamental pixels of rad.

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October 26, 2023 80 mins

Daniel and Katie talk about how we experience the Universe and what physics underlies our senses.

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October 24, 2023 53 mins

Daniel and Jorge are over the moon about the possibility of spotting alien moons.

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October 19, 2023 63 mins

Daniel and Kelly wrangle with the tricky science and ethics of sending microbes to distant worlds.

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October 17, 2023 47 mins

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the hairy question of what's happening inside and on the surface of black holes. 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the claims that 'Oumuamua might have been alien space junk.

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Daniel and Jorge break down a new study that looks for dark matter using both gravity and light.

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October 5, 2023 45 mins

Daniel and Jorge talk about the effort to track down all the quarks in the Universe.

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October 3, 2023 57 mins

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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