Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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 questions@danielandjorge.com

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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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Daniel and Jorge dig into the history of matter, dark matter and dark energy, explaining how they used to have very different ratios.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the Earth's tilt, steampunk atoms and fundamental pixels of rad.

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Daniel and Katie talk about how we experience the Universe and what physics underlies our senses.

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Daniel and Jorge are over the moon about the possibility of spotting alien moons.

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Daniel and Kelly wrangle with the tricky science and ethics of sending microbes to distant worlds.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the hairy question of what's happening inside and on the surface of black holes. 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the claims that 'Oumuamua might have been alien space junk.

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Daniel and Jorge break down a new study that looks for dark matter using both gravity and light.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the effort to track down all the quarks in the Universe.

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Daniel and Katie warp their minds around the question of what gravitational information really is and what we know about a black hole.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send in your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from young people about the Universe, to mark Jorge's new book!

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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.

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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.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about what it would take to live away from Earth, and whether a small planet could host humanity.

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Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the weird consequences and hard questions of special relativity!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about why the Higgs mass is such an important number and how physicists weigh such a fleeting particle.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to questions@danielandjorge.com

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Daniel and Jorge explain how simulation lets scientists answer new kinds of questions about the Universe.

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Daniel and Katie talk about what physicists expected when they turned on a new kind of ear for listening to the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what it means for space to be curved, how we measure it and why the answer is a puzzle.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to the author of "Meru" about a future which blurs the line between humans and machines.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what is revealed if you empty space of all possible particles.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Tayio Fujii, author of "Orbital Cloud" 

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Daniel and Jorge turn their eyes to the center of the galactic action and give us a sense for where we are.

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Daniel and Katie get their heads spinning as they spiral into the center of spinning black holes

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Daniel and Jorge talk about a particle with a pure magnetic charge and how to look for it using a cubic kilometer of ice.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the mysterious mass of the neutrino and how we can measure it.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how to keep solar panels bright and powerful when they far away on a dusty planet.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the gooey physics of honey, gravity, asphalt and ketchup!

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel talks to Zach Weinersmith about the most common misconceptions about our Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether we can expect the Earth to continue in its path forever, or if our days are numbered.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when you start to move fast, and whether it makes sense to think about your mass growing.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how a planets gets its natural satellites and the stories that each one reveals.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether galaxies have to have black holes at their hearts.

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Daniel and Jorge break down the recent discovery of huge gravitational waves by NANOGrav, and what it means about supermassive black holes.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the deep, violent history of the Earth's surface.

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Daniel and Katie touch on the explosive question of nuclear weapons and explain the impact of space-based explosions.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about the dangers of our Universe and whether engineers could save us. 

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Daniel talks to philosopher Thomas Barrett about whether there could be multiple effective descriptions of our Universe 

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Daniel and Jorge try to see through the mysteries of transparency.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the super names for some of the most incredible events in astronomy.

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Daniel and Katie talk about the amazing physics, chemistry and biology that determines how we see the Sun.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the Universe would make sense without antimatter.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how clever experiments might provide a breakthrough in the effort to understand the quantum nature of space-time.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about how the gravitational dance of the Earth and Moon, and other objects in and out of our Solar System.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how to use different cosmic rulers to measure the expansion of the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Submit your question to questions@danielandjorge.com 

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep future fate of our cosmic neighborhood.

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Daniel and Jorge explore whether its possible to crack open a black hole by overcharging it.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about what the night sky would look like if you travelled back to the time of the dinosaurs.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the question of the nature of space itself, and whether it might flow and bubble. 

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