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.
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Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 8min
Can you communicate with neutrinos?
Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 7min
The Science of "The Spare Man"
Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 6min
What's it like to be an alien?
Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 4, 2022 • 1h 10min
Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 4min
Why does physics even work?
Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 27, 2022 • 1h
What is negative temperature?
Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 9min
Is math the language of the Universe?
Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 1min
What are quantum glasses?
Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 15, 2022 • 60min
What will the Lucy mission teach us?
Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 13, 2022 • 1h 7min
Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?
Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
