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 cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 19 days 10 hours 1 minute
What is a light cone?
Daniel and Jorge explain how the speed of light limits how events play out in the Universe.
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How many particles has the Large Hadron Collider discovered?
Daniel and Jorge reveal that the Large Hadron Collider has found much more than just the Higgs boson!
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Why is the three-body problem so hard?
Daniel and Jorge talk about why something so simple is one of the oldest and hardest problems in physics.
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How many stars can a solar system have?
Daniel and Jorge talk about binary star systems, trinary star systems and totally bonkers star systems with even more stars!
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Listener Questions 16: pictures from space, antimatter stars and Jupiter-eating aliens!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Have questions? Send them to questions@danielandjorge.com
Can we use the galaxy as a gravitational wave detector?
Daniel explains how pulsars can be used as a galaxy-sized physics experiment.
How does a plasma thruster work?
Will a plasma-based spaceship engine let humanity zoom between planets?
Can you outrun a flash of light?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether its possible to outrun the fastest thing in the Universe
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How were pulsars discovered?
Daniel recounts the story of how pulsars were discovered and what they tell us about the death of stars.
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