Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge take a bite out of "nuclear pasta" and dive into the heart of these strange stars. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge grapple with this hard-to-say word that might make complex quantum calculations much easier. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the surprises found in the first science from the James Webb telescope and what it means for our understanding of the early Universe.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Kelly wrestle with competing infinities to understand why the night sky is not catastrophically ablaze with light.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about how discoveries are made, the most important recent discoveries and how to detect aliens.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge grapple with the possibility that time could flow in more than one direction, at the same time(s).   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about how one of the basic building blocks of matter is surprisingly impermanent and mysterious.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when one superstar of physics slams into another. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the lengths people will go to avoid accepting the randomness of quantum mechanics.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge break down the differences between the two-way and one-way speed of light. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes have a temperature and if we can ever know!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the Universe got an extra boost of expansion early on, and if it's cartoonists' fault.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about where the missing matter in the Universe might be, and how slime molds might help us find it.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge walk through the first images from our fancy new space telescope!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about why the Universe seems to follow rules, and celebrate the birthday of the woman who revealed the this deep truth.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge break down the science of using huge lasers to zap frozen pellets of hydrogen. Or ice cream. Or cartoonists.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the mysteries of why galaxies stop making stars. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.