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

July 25, 2024 52 mins

Daniel and Katie use their p-branes to explore a theory of everything build on vibrating membranes.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com

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July 18, 2024 50 mins

Daniel and Jorge try to resist the magnetic attraction of the mysteries of black holes, and fail.

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July 11, 2024 54 mins

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the tricky question of the length of a photon, and end up talking about hotdogs and meatballs.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Guillermo Sohnlein about life in the Venutian clouds

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June 27, 2024 57 mins

Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens to neutrinos as the Universe expands.

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June 25, 2024 52 mins

Daniel and Katie spin a tale of how the velocity of the Earth's surface is changing under our feet.

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June 18, 2024 48 mins

Daniel and Jorge talk about how the greatest cosmic fireballs might trigger ice ages here on Earth.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about travel to and from other stars and whether scientists have split the electron.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the relationship between matter, dark matter and anti-matter!

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Daniel and Kelly talk about whether planes could be powered by nuclear reactors and whether that would be a bad idea, or a very bad idea.

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Daniel talks to Peter Harness, screenwriter for "Constellation", about the quantum rules of his fictional Universe.

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Daniel talks to Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of "The Man From the Future" about the life and impact of John von Neumann

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Daniel and Katie reveal the shocking truth about the balance between positive and negative particles.

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