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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Are neutrinos hiding the dark matter?
51 min
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Black Hole Questions!
44 min
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What is a quantum eraser?
49 min
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How many generations of stars will there be?
51 min
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Is time pixelated?
Is time pixelated?
51 min
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What hidden symmetry is controlling the Universe?
54 min
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Do fission reactors occur naturally?
Do fission reactors occur naturally?
44 min
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Does the Universe need cause and effect?
Does the Universe need cause and effect?
50 min
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Does the weak force attract or repel?
Does the weak force attract or repel?
50 min
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Is the Universe a hologram?
Is the Universe a hologram?
47 min
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Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes an...
Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes and higgs fields!
46 min
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Can you be motionless in space?
Can you be motionless in space?
52 min
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Why don't we have electric airplanes?
Why don't we have electric airplanes?
52 min
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What will the Giant Magellan Telescope show us?
What will the Giant Magellan Telescope show us?
57 min
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What is a space hurricane?
What is a space hurricane?
43 min
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What's a proton made of?
What's a proton made of?
49 min
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What if our particles were different?
What if our particles were different?
51 min
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What is a light cone?
47 min
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How many particles has the Large Hadron Collide...
48 min
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Why is the three-body problem so hard?
47 min
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How many stars can a solar system have?
47 min
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Listener Questions 16: pictures from space, ant...
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Have questions? Send them to questions@danielandjorge.com
46 min
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Can we use the galaxy as a gravitational wave d...
Daniel explains how pulsars can be used as a galaxy-sized physics experiment.
43 min
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How does a plasma thruster work?
Will a plasma-based spaceship engine let humanity zoom between planets?
45 min
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Can you outrun a flash of light?
46 min