Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

Daniel and Jorge talk about how our understanding of physics is central to making the internet work.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge talk about real science of element 115 and whether it aligns with the spectacular story of anti-gravity alien ships at Area 51.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge explore the enduring mystery of how much heavy metal sits in our Sun.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about aliens, answer a question from a high school class, and advise a listener about destroying the moon.

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Daniel talks to Rabbi Jack Schlacter, a physicist at Los Alamos, about the movie Oppenheimer and the connections and conflicts between physics and judaism.

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Daniel talks to Harry Cliff, author of the new book "Space Oddities", about the most intriguing unexplained particle physics experiments and what they might mean. 

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the speed of light, entanglement and time!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes.

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Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 2)

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Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 1)

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the cozy story of the proton might need to be updated to describe all of its true charm.

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Daniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice.

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Daniel and Kelly analyze recent claims of the recovery of iron spheres from interstellar meteors.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the weirdness of muons and how they can let us see inside things.

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Daniel and Jorge explain what we know about the bars at the center of galaxies, and what mysteries they might hide.

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Daniel and Katie grapple with an effort to explain how quantum mechanics could arise from relativity.

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Daniel and Jorge explore whether the fundamental forces can be linked together, and whether they all acted as one in the early Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the whole Universe is in motion, and what could be pulling on it

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Ask your [email protected]

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Daniel and Jorge talk about super complex numbers and how they might hold the secrets of the Universe. 

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Daniel talks to Prof. Sabine Stanley about what's happening inside planets, and how that helps us understand what's out there.

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Daniel and Jorge push and pull on the simple picture of particles exchanging other particles

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Daniel talks to Prof. Aomawa Shields, auther of "Life on Other Planets" about the the climate of exoplanets and her unusual path to astronomy.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how tidal forces shape the Earth itself and the life on it.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about creative ways to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe. 

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Daniel and Jorge get the chills when they discover how little we know about water.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about reviving old theories, building tall mountains, and passing time.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the moon is positive, negative or neutral!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether two planets could share an orbit around a star, or whether there would be too much gravitational squabbling.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the weird, wacky shapes of galaxies and the cosmic story they tell.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether there are two or one kind of mass and the massive consequences.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how instabilities in the early solar system may have ejected an ancient ice giant.

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Daniel and Jorge discuss how dark matter shapes our Universe and whether it would be possible to have a galaxy without it.

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Daniel and Jorge explore whether basic rules of our Universe are broken at the quantum scale.

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Daniel and Jorge venture to the edge of human knowledge about black holes, gravity and magnetic fields.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about alien arrival, as depicted on the show "Invasion" and Daniel talks to two of the writers, Tatiana Suarez Pico and Aditi Brennan Kapil about writing science fiction.

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Daniel talkes to Prof. James Poskett about how the history of science has much more nuance and global participation than the standard mythology.

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Ned Beauman, author of "Venemous Lumpsucker" a cautionary tale about applying free market strategies to preventing extinction.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with one of the fuzziest concepts in quantum mechanics

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Daniel and Jorge take you back to the early Universe and the sound bubbles that seeded everything.

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Daniel talks to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith about whether humanity is ready to move into the stars.

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