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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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Latest episode

Sep 23, 2025

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Episodes

Listener Questions 44: Deep questions from listeners like you! 31.10.2023

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the Earth's tilt, steampunk atoms and fundamental pixels of rad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Which force(s) power the human senses? 26.10.2023

Daniel and Katie talk about how we experience the Universe and what physics underlies our senses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Could we see moons around exoplanets? 24.10.2023

Daniel and Jorge are over the moon about the possibility of spotting alien moons. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Could we seed exoplanets with life? 19.10.2023

Daniel and Kelly wrangle with the tricky science and ethics of sending microbes to distant worlds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do Black Holes Have Hair? 17.10.2023

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the hairy question of what's happening inside and on the surface of black holes.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Was the interstellar visitor oumuamua natural or artificial? 12.10.2023

Daniel and Jorge talk about the claims that 'Oumuamua might have been alien space junk. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Could dark matter be making flashes of light? 10.10.2023

Daniel and Jorge break down a new study that looks for dark matter using both gravity and light. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Where is all the missing matter? 05.10.2023

Daniel and Jorge talk about the effort to track down all the quarks in the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How does gravity escape a black hole? 03.10.2023

Daniel and Katie warp their minds around the question of what gravitational information really is and what we know about a black hole. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 43: Light, heat and vision 28.09.2023

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

Great, Big Questions about the Universe 26.09.2023

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from young people about the Universe, to mark Jorge's new book! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How important is cosmic dust? 21.09.2023

Daniel and Jorge dust off their knowledge of the tiny-but-mighty grains of space dust which help form our world and block our view of the cosmos. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Explain the Universe: Behind the Scenes 19.09.2023

To mark the 500th episode, Daniel gives a tour of the podcast's history and production process, including candid interviews with the co-hosts, Sean Carroll and other podcasters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How big is the smallest habitable planet? 14.09.2023

Daniel and Kelly talk about what it would take to live away from Earth, and whether a small planet could host humanity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why do moving objects look shorter? 12.09.2023

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the weird consequences and hard questions of special relativity! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How do we measure the Higgs boson mass? 07.09.2023

Daniel and Jorge talk about why the Higgs mass is such an important number and how physicists weigh such a fleeting particle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener Questions 42: Life, the Universe and Ghosts! 05.09.2023

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.

Why do scientists do simulations? 31.08.2023

Daniel and Jorge explain how simulation lets scientists answer new kinds of questions about the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have we seen more or fewer gravitational waves than expected? 29.08.2023

Daniel and Katie talk about what physicists expected when they turned on a new kind of ear for listening to the Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why is space so flat? 24.08.2023

Daniel and Jorge talk about what it means for space to be curved, how we measure it and why the answer is a puzzle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Science Fiction Universe of "Meru" by SB Divya 22.08.2023

Daniel and Kelly talk to the author of "Meru" about a future which blurs the line between humans and machines. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is the maximum vacuum? 17.08.2023

Daniel and Jorge talk about what is revealed if you empty space of all possible particles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Science Fiction Universe of "Orbital Cloud" 15.08.2023

Daniel and Kelly talk to Tayio Fujii, author of "Orbital Cloud"  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What does the center of the galaxy look like? 10.08.2023

Daniel and Jorge turn their eyes to the center of the galactic action and give us a sense for where we are. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How fast can a black hole spin? 08.08.2023

Daniel and Katie get their heads spinning as they spiral into the center of spinning black holes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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