Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Did NASA accidentally invent a warp drive?
12 januari 2023 · 50 min
Daniel and Jorge dissect research articles claiming sudden progress in warp technology Lees meer
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Could a grand unified theory of physics be impossible?
10 januari 2023 · 48 min
Daniel talks with Dr. Katie Robertson about whether there even is a single unified theory of physics for us to discover. Lees meer
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Listener Questions about light and black holes
5 januari 2023 · 54 min
Daniel and Jorge absorb listener questions, reflect on the answers and emit some silly jokes Lees meer
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How powerful could a civilization get?
3 januari 2023 · 50 min
Daniel and Jorge discuss the Kardashev Scale, Kardashians, Cryptocurrencies and crpytozoology. Lees meer
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What is quantized inertia?
29 december 2022 · 50 min
Daniel and Jorge explore the mystery of inertia and whether a controversial theory can explain it. Lees meer
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Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?
27 december 2022 · 50 min
Daniel and Jorge debate whether the Higgs boson discovery marks the end of collider physics. Lees meer
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The biggest collisions in the Universe
24 december 2022 · 24 min
Bonus episode: Daniel and Jorge visit the metaverse to discuss what happens when particles, stars, galaxies or superclusters collide! Lees meer
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The science of time travel television
22 december 2022 · 56 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of "Umbrella Academy", "Time Traveler's Wife" and "Dark". Lees meer
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What is the Big Rip?
20 december 2022 · 54 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about what would happen if dark energy increased and tore the Universe apart. Lees meer
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Could dark matter be a superfluid?
15 december 2022 · 51 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether a new idea for dark matter might overcome some discrepancies in galaxy behavior. Lees meer
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Could black holes actually be fuzzballs?
13 december 2022 · 52 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the dark massive objects we've observed could be something stringier and stranger than black holes. Lees meer
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Is there a pattern to asteroid impacts on Earth?
8 december 2022 · 1 uur
Daniel and Katie talk about whether a future impact is predictable or random. Lees meer
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What is a black hole eclipse?
6 december 2022 · 53 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes can be blocked or can block other objects. Lees meer
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What is the densest planet?
1 december 2022 · 57 min
Daniel and Jorge wonder about which planets would float if you dunked them in a cosmic tub. Lees meer
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Does the Moon have an atmosphere?
29 november 2022 · 48 min
Daniel and Kelly talk about what you might breathe if you opened your space-helmet on the surface of the Moon. Lees meer
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How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?
24 november 2022 · 58 min
Daniel and Jorge wrestle with Bell's experiment and the philosophical consequences. Lees meer
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Listener Questions 33: Questions from your kids!
22 november 2022 · 48 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about what nothing looks like, whether Thor's hammer would destroy the Earth and rogue stars. Lees meer
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What are sterile neutrinos?
17 november 2022 · 51 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about a new stealthy kind of neutrino that might neaten up the mess left by all of the other neutrinos. Lees meer
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Why is math so important for physics?
15 november 2022 · 56 min
Daniel talks to mathematician Steve Strogatz about why calculus seems to describe the Universe so well. Lees meer
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How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?
10 november 2022 · 53 min
Daniel and Jorge blow their own minds talking about the faster-than-light expansion of the Universe Lees meer
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Can you send messages without particles?
8 november 2022 · 49 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about ingenious quantum tricks to send information without actual particles. Lees meer
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How do planets get rings?
3 november 2022 · 58 min
Daniel and Katie talk about planetary rings and what they tell us about the history of the solar system. Lees meer
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Can you make matter out of pure electrons?
1 november 2022 · 52 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about the quest to build a crystal out of only electrons. Lees meer
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What are the most common elements in the Universe?
27 oktober 2022 · 57 min
Daniel and Kelly talk about how elements were made in the early Universe, what processes are making more of them today, and why some elements are more common than others. Lees meer
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Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseball
25 oktober 2022 · 53 min
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com Lees meer
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How dangerous is nuclear waste?
20 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
Daniel talks to experts about the waste produced by nuclear reactors, the dangers, risks and options. Lees meer
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What's up with Iapetus?
18 oktober 2022 · 52 min
Daniel and Jorge dissect the history of this mysterious solar system object. Lees meer
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Can you communicate with neutrinos?
13 oktober 2022 · 59 min
Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails. Lees meer
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The Science of "The Spare Man"
11 oktober 2022 · 58 min
Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man" Lees meer
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What's it like to be an alien?
6 oktober 2022 · 57 min
Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate. Lees meer
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Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!
4 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us. Lees meer
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Why does physics even work?
29 september 2022 · 55 min
Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand. Lees meer
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What is negative temperature?
27 september 2022 · 51 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero! Lees meer
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Is math the language of the Universe?
22 september 2022 · 1 uur
Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered. Lees meer
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What are quantum glasses?
20 september 2022 · 52 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses. Lees meer
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What will the Lucy mission teach us?
15 september 2022 · 51 min
Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins. Lees meer
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Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?
13 september 2022 · 58 min
Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler! Lees meer
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What's inside a neutron star?
8 september 2022 · 57 min
Daniel and Jorge take a bite out of "nuclear pasta" and dive into the heart of these strange stars. Lees meer
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What's the amplituhedron?
6 september 2022 · 54 min
Daniel and Jorge grapple with this hard-to-say word that might make complex quantum calculations much easier. Lees meer
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Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory?
1 september 2022 · 51 min
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. Lees meer
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If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark?
30 augustus 2022 · 54 min
Daniel and Kelly wrestle with competing infinities to understand why the night sky is not catastrophically ablaze with light. Lees meer
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Listener Questions about discoveries
25 augustus 2022 · 53 min
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about how discoveries are made, the most important recent discoveries and how to detect aliens. Lees meer
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Could there be two dimensions of time?
23 augustus 2022 · 52 min
Daniel and Jorge grapple with the possibility that time could flow in more than one direction, at the same time(s). Lees meer
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How long does a neutron live?
18 augustus 2022 · 58 min
Daniel and Katie talk about how one of the basic building blocks of matter is surprisingly impermanent and mysterious. Lees meer
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Can a gravitational wave pass through a black hole?
16 augustus 2022 · 56 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when one superstar of physics slams into another. Lees meer
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What is superdeterminism?
11 augustus 2022 · 50 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about the lengths people will go to avoid accepting the randomness of quantum mechanics. Lees meer
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Is the speed of light the same in all directions?
9 augustus 2022 · 50 min
Daniel and Jorge break down the differences between the two-way and one-way speed of light. Lees meer
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Are black holes hot or not?
4 augustus 2022 · 54 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes have a temperature and if we can ever know! Lees meer
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Listener Questions about aliens, black holes and white holes!
2 augustus 2022 · 48 min
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com Lees meer
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What is early dark energy?
28 juli 2022 · 58 min
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the Universe got an extra boost of expansion early on, and if it's cartoonists' fault. Lees meer
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