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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Classic episode - Why is gravity so weird?
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Why is gravity so much weaker than the other forces? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Are there comets in the asteroid belt?
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Daniel and Jorge try to clarify the distinction between our neighborhood space objects and what it means if we find them out of place. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Classic Episode - Is the Universe Random?
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If you repeat the same experiment, do you get the same outcome? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Could quantum clocks detect dark matter?
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Daniel and Jorge talk about new ways to find dark matter, using space microwave ovens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Classic Episode - Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
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What is light made of? A particle, a wave, both, neither? Little puppies? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Listener Questions goes bananas!
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about banana decays and black hole velocities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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What was the brightest explosion ever seen?
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Daniel and Jorge look right into the beam of incredible astronomical explosions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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What's the fastest event ever measured?
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Daniel and Jorge slice time down to its shortest slivers to understand how fast things can happen in the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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The science fiction Universe of "Dark Matter"
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Daniel and Jorge talk to a screenwriter and scientific advisor for the multi-verse show, "Dark Matter" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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What is the Physics of life?
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Daniel and Kelly talk to Sara Imari Walker, author of "Life as No One Knows it" about what life is and what aliens might look like. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Daniel and Jorge explore the edges of our colorful experience of the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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How to think like a physicist?
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Daniel and Jorge discuss whether physicists think about the world differently, and how that makes them more or less useful. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Daniel and Katie use their p-branes to explore a theory of everything build on vibrating membranes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Listener Questions 64: Phase of the Universe, particle interactions and Universe-sized black holes!
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Do black holes have magnetic fields?
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Daniel and Jorge try to resist the magnetic attraction of the mysteries of black holes, and fail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Listener Questions 63: Hawking radiation, mass, and anti-strings
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the tricky question of the length of a photon, and end up talking about hotdogs and meatballs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Could humans live in the clouds of Venus?
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Daniel and Kelly talk to Guillermo Sohnlein about life in the Venutian clouds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Listener Questions 62: Single photons, moon gold and particle interactions.
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Listener Questions 61.0158: Black holes, gold asteroids and gravitational waves in time!
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens to neutrinos as the Universe expands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Is the length of a day changing?
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Daniel and Katie spin a tale of how the velocity of the Earth's surface is changing under our feet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Listener Questions 60,491: Mini solar systems, greek physics and black holes!
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Can supernovas cause ice ages?
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Daniel and Jorge talk about how the greatest cosmic fireballs might trigger ice ages here on Earth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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Listener Questions 59: Interstellar probes and fractional electrons
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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about travel to and from other stars and whether scientists have split the electron. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.De către iHeartPodcasts
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