Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of the novel "The Best of All Possible Worlds" by Dr. Karen Lords.

https://karenlord.wordpress.com/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/

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Does dark matter feel the Higgs? Can particles be black holes? What would happen if the Earth froze?

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What convinced people that black holes are real?

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Americans had the biggest colliders in the world, until they tried to build one that was too big. Hear the super story of the superlative supercollider.

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Electrons can hang out until the end of time. Physicists think that protons should eventually fall apart. But will they?

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What happened in the first 200 microseconds of the Universe? What can you see within 200 light years from Earth?

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Recent results from the XENON experiment could be the first hint of something groundbreaking... or it could be nothing.

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The gargantuan black holes at the centers of galaxies seem impossibly large. How did they grow so large in the short history of our Universe?

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Can physicists discover new particles by watching how muons wiggle in magnetic fields?

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Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know if it's hot (or not!)

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