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.
Categories: Science & Medicine
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Daniel and Jorge talk about a speculative theory called "rainbow gravity" which might help us understand the origins of the Universe.
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Previous episodes
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470 - Does gravity make rainbows?Thu, 02 Feb 2023
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469 - Why can't stars fuse Iron?Tue, 31 Jan 2023
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468 - Does particle spin affect life on Earth?Thu, 26 Jan 2023
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467 - What's going on with Przybylski's Star?Tue, 24 Jan 2023
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466 - The Science of "For All Mankind"Thu, 19 Jan 2023
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465 - Does anti-matter feel anti-gravity?Tue, 17 Jan 2023
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464 - Did NASA accidentally invent a warp drive?Thu, 12 Jan 2023
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463 - Could a grand unified theory of physics be impossible?Tue, 10 Jan 2023
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462 - Listener Questions about light and black holesThu, 05 Jan 2023
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461 - How powerful could a civilization get?Tue, 03 Jan 2023
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460 - What is quantized inertia?Thu, 29 Dec 2022
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459 - Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?Tue, 27 Dec 2022
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458 - The biggest collisions in the UniverseSat, 24 Dec 2022
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457 - The science of time travel televisionThu, 22 Dec 2022
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456 - What is the Big Rip?Tue, 20 Dec 2022
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455 - Could dark matter be a superfluid?Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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454 - Could black holes actually be fuzzballs?Tue, 13 Dec 2022
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453 - Is there a pattern to asteroid impacts on Earth?Thu, 08 Dec 2022
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452 - What is a black hole eclipse?Tue, 06 Dec 2022
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451 - What is the densest planet?Thu, 01 Dec 2022
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450 - Does the Moon have an atmosphere?Tue, 29 Nov 2022
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449 - How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?Thu, 24 Nov 2022
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448 - Listener Questions 33: Questions from your kids!Tue, 22 Nov 2022
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447 - What are sterile neutrinos?Thu, 17 Nov 2022
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446 - Why is math so important for physics?Tue, 15 Nov 2022
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445 - How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?Thu, 10 Nov 2022
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444 - Can you send messages without particles?Tue, 08 Nov 2022
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443 - How do planets get rings?Thu, 03 Nov 2022
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442 - Can you make matter out of pure electrons?Tue, 01 Nov 2022
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441 - What are the most common elements in the Universe?Thu, 27 Oct 2022
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439 - Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseballTue, 25 Oct 2022
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438 - How dangerous is nuclear waste?Thu, 20 Oct 2022
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437 - What's up with Iapetus?Tue, 18 Oct 2022
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436 - Can you communicate with neutrinos?Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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435 - The Science of "The Spare Man"Tue, 11 Oct 2022
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433 - What's it like to be an alien?Thu, 06 Oct 2022
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432 - Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!Tue, 04 Oct 2022
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431 - Why does physics even work?Thu, 29 Sep 2022
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430 - What is negative temperature?Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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429 - Is math the language of the Universe?Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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428 - What are quantum glasses?Tue, 20 Sep 2022
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427 - What will the Lucy mission teach us?Thu, 15 Sep 2022
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426 - Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?Tue, 13 Sep 2022
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425 - What's inside a neutron star?Thu, 08 Sep 2022
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424 - What's the amplituhedron?Tue, 06 Sep 2022
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423 - Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory?Thu, 01 Sep 2022
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422 - If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark?Tue, 30 Aug 2022
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421 - Listener Questions about discoveriesThu, 25 Aug 2022
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420 - Could there be two dimensions of time?Tue, 23 Aug 2022
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419 - How long does a neutron live?Thu, 18 Aug 2022
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