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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Science Podcasts
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.danielandjorge.com/
Episodes
What is membrane theory?
7/25/2024
Daniel and Katie use their p-branes to explore a theory of everything build on vibrating membranes.
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Duration:00:52:30
Listener Questions 64: Phase of the Universe, particle interactions and Universe-sized black holes!
7/23/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com
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Duration:00:52:18
Do black holes have magnetic fields?
7/18/2024
Daniel and Jorge try to resist the magnetic attraction of the mysteries of black holes, and fail.
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Duration:00:50:17
Listener Questions 63: Hawking radiation, mass, and anti-strings
7/16/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com
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Duration:00:49:43
How long is a photon?
7/11/2024
Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the tricky question of the length of a photon, and end up talking about hotdogs and meatballs.
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Duration:00:54:04
Could humans live in the clouds of Venus?
7/9/2024
Daniel and Kelly talk to Guillermo Sohnlein about life in the Venutian clouds
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Duration:01:01:53
Listener Questions 62: Single photons, moon gold and particle interactions.
7/4/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com
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Duration:00:51:56
Listener Questions 61.0158: Black holes, gold asteroids and gravitational waves in time!
7/2/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com
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Duration:00:54:15
Do neutrinos get redshifted?
6/27/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens to neutrinos as the Universe expands.
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Duration:00:57:40
Is the length of a day changing?
6/25/2024
Daniel and Katie spin a tale of how the velocity of the Earth's surface is changing under our feet.
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Duration:00:52:38
Listener Questions 60,491: Mini solar systems, greek physics and black holes!
6/20/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com
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Duration:00:47:56
Can supernovas cause ice ages?
6/18/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about how the greatest cosmic fireballs might trigger ice ages here on Earth.
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Duration:00:48:07
Listener Questions 59: Interstellar probes and fractional electrons
6/13/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions about travel to and from other stars and whether scientists have split the electron.
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Duration:00:45:51
Does dark matter have an anti-particle?
6/11/2024
Daniel and Jorge talk about the relationship between matter, dark matter and anti-matter!
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Duration:00:49:55
Why don't we have nuclear powered airplanes?
6/6/2024
Daniel and Kelly talk about whether planes could be powered by nuclear reactors and whether that would be a bad idea, or a very bad idea.
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Duration:00:42:56
Listener Questions 58: Donuts, disaster and discoveries!
6/4/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!
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Duration:00:46:27
The science fiction Universe of "Constellation"
5/30/2024
Daniel talks to Peter Harness, screenwriter for "Constellation", about the quantum rules of his fictional Universe.
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Duration:00:49:44
Listener Questions 57: Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics and Beta Decay!
5/28/2024
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!
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Duration:00:43:23
Who was the most influential scientist?
5/23/2024
Daniel talks to Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of "The Man From the Future" about the life and impact of John von Neumann
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Duration:00:58:03
What's the electric charge of the Universe?
5/21/2024
Daniel and Katie reveal the shocking truth about the balance between positive and negative particles.
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Duration:00:50:22