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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Can brains spontaneously form in space?
Can brains spontaneously form in space?
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Listener Questions: Black Holes, Dark Entropy a...
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/
42 min
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Did CERN just discover a new particle, using pe...
43 min
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Did Fermilab just discover a new particle?
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Have we solved the black hole information paradox?
Daniel and Jorge break down recent advances in quantum gravity!
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What's a Tesseract?
Daniel and Jorge talk about 4-dimensional cubes, life in the 4th dimension and the Infinity Stones!
43 min
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Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?
Daniel and guest host Kelly Weinersmith explore the dramatic story of Jupiter's wandering orbits
46 min
108
What's the heaviest stable element?
Daniel and Jorge take a trip to the theoretical Island of Stability and talk about super heavy elements
46 min
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What's the Huge Large Quasar Group?
Daniel and Jorge talk about quasars, large groups of quasars and HUGE LARGE groups of quasars!
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What is the Space Roar?
Daniel and Jorge talk about the mysterious, unexplained "space roar" and whether its a clue about something new in the Universe.
46 min
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What was the pioneer anomaly?
Daniel and Jorge dig into the mystery of why the Pioneer spacecraft's path surprised scientists.
45 min
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The Science Finction Universe of Lindsay Ellis
Daniel and Jorge talk about the Universe of Lindsay Ellis' novel "Axiom's End"
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about black h...
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/
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Why does our Universe have a Cold Spot?
Daniel and Jorge explain why scientists are puzzling over a massive cold spot in the sky.
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What are boson stars?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether its possible to have stars made out of bosons!
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about the sme...
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/
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What are globular clusters?
Daniel and guest host Katie Goldin explore the mysteries of these weird, ancient blobs of stars.
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What is a Quantum Dot?
Daniel and Jorge break down the quantum world into tiny dots that have amazing properties.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about diamond...
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/
36 min
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Can we see evidence of a previous Universe?
Daniel and Jorge explain Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology and what it means about the origins of the Universe.
40 min
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Can we build an invisibility cloak?
Daniel and guest host Kelly Weinersmith break down the science and science-fiction of invisibility.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about hawking...
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/
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What's a Time Crystal?
Daniel and guest host Katie Goldin talk about the crazy and real science of time crystals
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What's the biggest star in the Universe?
Daniel and Jorge talk about mind-blowingly huge balls of burning gas.
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Daniel answers Listener Questions about closed ...
Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/
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