Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe episodes

April 13, 2023 Why can't two electrons be in the same place?
Daniel and Jorge explore the Pauli exclusion principle: why some particles avoid each other and how it affects the nature of our Universe.
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1 hr 5 min
April 11, 2023 What can we learn from dwarf galaxies?
Daniel and Jorge talk about how the smaller galaxies might hold the secrets to understanding the structure of the Universe and the truth about dark matter.

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59 min
April 06, 2023 Why didn't we evolve around a red dwarf star?
Daniel and Jorge discuss the 'Red Dwarf Paradox' and what it would be like to live under a cooler, redder star.
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1 hr 3 min
April 04, 2023 How does carbon dating work?
Daniel and Kelly talk about how cosmic rays and carbon decay let us put dates on ancient deaths!
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1 hr
March 30, 2023 Is there a better way to accelerate particles?
Daniel and Jorge talk about why its so expensive to build a super collider and how plasma technology might make it all better, faster, cheaper.
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1 hr 2 min
March 28, 2023 What does the Antikythera Mechanism do?
Daniel and Katie explore the puzzle of the "world's first computer", and what it might have calculated.
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57 min
March 23, 2023 Listener Questions 37: quantum cats, heat death and dark multiverses!
Daniel and Jorge answer questions about quantum mechanics, the end of the Universe, and the multiverse.
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59 min
March 21, 2023 Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?
Daniel and Jorge explore how the Higgs field shapes our Universe and what it would be like to live without it.

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1 hr 4 min
March 16, 2023 Could we spot an alien nuclear blast?
Daniel and Jorge talk about whether we have the technology to spot a nuclear war on other planets.

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1 hr 7 min
March 14, 2023 Could some particles have tiny electric charges?
Daniel and Jorge wonder about why particles have charge, and whether particles could exist with tiny electrical charge.
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1 hr 7 min

About 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 cartoonist)…