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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 c...

Episodes

20 of 858 episodes

Can you entangle three particles?

Daniel and Kelly explain how triplets of particles can be entangled, and how it allows for a smoking-gun proof of quantum mechanics.

50:13Oct 29, 2026

Listener Questions #54

Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about algal blooms in the Reflecting Pool, the difference between memory and consciousness, and b...

46:48Oct 27, 2026

Science conspiracy theories (featuring Dr. Phil Plait)

Daniel and Kelly are joined by Phil Plait to explore conspiracy theories about the end of the world, demons at CERN, and the face on Mars.

65:22Oct 22, 2026

Sleuth-Hound (featuring Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris)

Daniel and Kelly interview Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes.

56:09Oct 20, 2026

Listener questions #53

Daniel and Kelly talk about how particles are detected, the heavy proton discovery, and de Sitter space.

40:53Oct 15, 2026

How did syphilis get to Europe?

Daniel and Kelly dive into the history of medicine. Syphilis arrived with a bang in Europe in 1493, but where did it come from?

43:38Oct 13, 2026

What if dark matter is more complicated?

Daniel and Kelly talk about a particularly quirky theory of dark matter that Daniel is searching for.

44:24Oct 8, 2026

Listener Questions #52

Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about how AI is impacting math and physics, what we really know about the wood wide web, and what...

48:00Oct 6, 2026

What is creativity? (featuring Dr. Moiya McTier)

Daniel and Kelly interview Dr. Moiya McTier about how we define and measure creativity, and the impacts of the modern world on creative purs...

54:16Oct 1, 2026

Supervoids

Daniel and Kelly explore the structure of the Universe and examine its emptiest places, making no effort to spare the scatological humor.

48:25Sep 29, 2026

Listener Questions #51

Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about special relativity, organisms that eat plastic, and whether the future is already determine...

48:55Sep 24, 2026

Do Animals Make Mistakes? (featuring Dr. Andy Sih)

Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Andy Sih about the kinds of mistakes wild animals make, and why they make them.

60:47Sep 22, 2026

Did we just discover dark matter?

Daniel and Kelly talk about the recent observation of a dark matter candidate

52:25Sep 17, 2026

Listener Questions #50

Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about scent dialects, drilling through the ice above the oceans of Enceladus, and why some animal...

51:16Sep 15, 2026

Addiction (featuring Dr. Marcelo Wood)

Daniel and Kelly interview Dr. Marcelo Wood about what addiction does to our brains, why some of us become addicted to drugs while others do...

57:42Sep 10, 2026

Is dark energy a fudge factor?

Daniel and Kelly talk about whether physicists are trying to understand the expansion of the Universe, or pull the cosmic wool over everyone...

55:18Sep 8, 2026

Listener Questions #49

Daniel and Kelly answer questions about alternatives to the Big Bang, scurvy, and supercontinents.

51:44Sep 3, 2026

Rewilding

Daniel and Kelly talk about the differences between conservation and rewilding, and discuss some of the successes, failures, and wild ideas...

62:01Sep 1, 2026

Can we simulate the Universe?

Daniel and Kelly talk about what a recent simulation project can tell us about how the Universe got so clumpy.

54:16Aug 27, 2026

Listener Questions #48

Daniel and Kelly answer questions about crackpots, hearing meteors, and the age of everything.

49:18Aug 25, 2026