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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.

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Sep 23, 2025

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Episodes

Do black holes have magnetic fields? 18.07.2024

Daniel and Jorge try to resist the magnetic attraction of the mysteries of black holes, and fail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 63: Hawking radiation, mass, and anti-strings 16.07.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How long is a photon? 11.07.2024

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Could humans live in the clouds of Venus? 09.07.2024

Daniel and Kelly talk to Guillermo Sohnlein about life in the Venutian clouds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 62: Single photons, moon gold and particle interactions. 04.07.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 61.0158: Black holes, gold asteroids and gravitational waves in time! 02.07.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do neutrinos get redshifted? 27.06.2024

Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens to neutrinos as the Universe expands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is the length of a day changing? 25.06.2024

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 60,491: Mini solar systems, greek physics and black holes! 20.06.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can supernovas cause ice ages? 18.06.2024

Daniel and Jorge talk about how the greatest cosmic fireballs might trigger ice ages here on Earth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 59: Interstellar probes and fractional electrons 13.06.2024

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Does dark matter have an anti-particle? 11.06.2024

Daniel and Jorge talk about the relationship between matter, dark matter and anti-matter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why don't we have nuclear powered airplanes? 06.06.2024

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 58: Donuts, disaster and discoveries! 04.06.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The science fiction Universe of "Constellation" 30.05.2024

Daniel talks to Peter Harness, screenwriter for "Constellation", about the quantum rules of his fictional Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 57: Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics and Beta Decay! 28.05.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Who was the most influential scientist? 23.05.2024

Daniel talks to Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of "The Man From the Future" about the life and impact of John von Neumann See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's the electric charge of the Universe? 21.05.2024

Daniel and Katie reveal the shocking truth about the balance between positive and negative particles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 56: Neutron Stars, Dense matter and shared atmospheres! 16.05.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What mysteries are hiding in the extra-galactic background light? 14.05.2024

Daniel and Jorge explore the challenges of detecting light from outside the Milky Way, and the secrets it might reveal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What’s the largest asteroid impact in Earth’s history? 09.05.2024

Daniel and Kelly review the most cataclysmic impacts in our planet's history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 55: Time and waves! 07.05.2024

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: questions@danielandjorge.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is quantum biology? 02.05.2024

Daniel and Kelly explore how biological systems rely on the quantum nature of matter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is gravitoelectromagnetism? 30.04.2024

Daniel and Katie bushwack their way between theories of gravity and electromagnetism, looking for the elusive connection. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Physics of the Internet 25.04.2024

Daniel and Jorge talk about how our understanding of physics is central to making the internet work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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