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.
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What Is the Hottest Thing In The Universe?
How hot can it get? Is there an upper limit to temperature?
45 min
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What Is A Dyson Sphere?
We're not talking about your vacuum cleaner!
44 min
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Bad Science Questions
Daniel and Jorge welcome Ethan, host of the Podcast Bad Science, and answer his questions about the universe.
47 min
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What Is Quantum Spin?
Everybody talks about it, but what IS it?
40 min
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What Is The Emptiest Place In The Universe?
What constitutes a vacuum? Can space ever really be empty?
41 min
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What's In Jupiter's Great Red Spot?
What is the Eye of Jupiter?
38 min
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Will A Gamma Ray Burst Kill You?
What are gamma ray bursts, and are they dangerous?
44 min
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What's Inside The Earth?
What would happen if you jumped into a hole that went through the center of the Earth and out the other side?
45 min
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How Does A Bicycle Balance?
We don't understand bicycles!
36 min
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Why Does Time Go Forwards?
Why can't we change the direction of time? What are the past, present and future really?
43 min
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What Is A Tachyon?
Are Tachyons real or just the stuff of science fiction?
39 min
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What is Supersymmetry?
What's so super about this symmetry?
45 min
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Questions From The Zeitgeist (ft The Daily Zeit...
Jack and Miles, hosts of The Daily Zeitgeist, ask Daniel and Jorge their most pressing questions about the universe; Why is the sky blue? Whats a quantum machine gun? How do planets form?
40 min
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What Is A Space Elevator?
Can this actually work?
45 min
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Can You See A Black Hole?
What would a picture of a black hole look like?
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What Are The Weirdest Stars?
What are neutron stars, pulsars and magnetars?
45 min
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What's Under The Ice On Europa?
This moon of Jupiter has an ENORMOUS ocean. Does anything live in it?
39 min
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What's The Biggest "Thing" in The Universe?
Planets, stars, galaxies, clusters, then what? What defines a "thing" and how big can they get?
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Listener Questions 2.0
Join Daniel and Jorge as they respond to 4 questions from listeners, just like you!
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What Is A Superconductor?
How does a super conductor work?
37 min
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What Was Oumuamua?
What was that strange rock that passed through our solar system in 2017?
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What Are Quantum Fields?
Quantum Field Theory, explained!
34 min
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What Is Time Dilation?
Why does time slow down when you go fast?
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Why Do We Have Stars?
Why are there stars and planets and not just smooth matter everywhere?
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How Does A Laser Work?
What makes a laser a laser? Pew Pew Pew!? Zap Zap Zap!?
36 min