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.

The internet went crazy talking about phosphine on Venus! What does it mean?
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Is there life on Venus?

Is there dark matter in black holes? Are gravitons and gravitational waves the same thing? Daniel and Jorge answer the most common listener questions!
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The most common listener questions!

Daniel and Jorge discuss the science of "The Doors of Eden", a multi-zooniverse novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The SF Multi-verse of Adrian Tchaikovsky

Dark matter and dark energy are 95% of the energy in the Universe. But do we need them?
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What would happen if dark matter and dark energy disappeared?

Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the Universe from Jorge's daughter Elinor, and talk about their new PBS Kids TV show: "Elinor Wonders Why". Link: pbskids.org/elinor
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Elinor Wonders About the Universe

Have you heard of "Bose Einstein Condensate" but never really understood it? D&J break it down for you.
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What is Bose Einstein Condensate

It's not anti-matter, or supersymmetric matter, but yet another way our familiar particles might be reflected, and could explain a deep mystery of the Universe.
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What is Mirror Matter?

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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The SF Universe of Dr. Karen Lords

Does dark matter feel the Higgs? Can particles be black holes? What would happen if the Earth froze?
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Listener Questions 12: Higgs Bosons, Black holes and earthquakes!

What convinced people that black holes are real?
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How did we discover black holes?

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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What happened to the Superconducting Supercollider?

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

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

Recent results from the XENON experiment could be the first hint of something groundbreaking... or it could be nothing.
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Did the XENON experiment just discover a weird axion?

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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How did supermassive black holes get so big?

Can physicists discover new particles by watching how muons wiggle in magnetic fields?
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The Marvelous Mystery of the Muon Magnetic Moment

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

Hear the story of the multi-decade trans-Atlantic rivalry that led to the Higgs boson discovery.
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How was the Higgs boson discovered?

Daniel and Jorge talk about phonons, magnons, excitons, anyons and explainons.
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What are quasi-particles

Daniel and Jorge explore how the new DUNE experiment could unravel secrets of neutrins... and the Universe!
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Can neutrinos explain why we have matter?

Can gravity waves kill you? Why do we have particles? Can fission power a star?
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Listener Questions 11: Deep questions about gravity and particles.

Is it possible that dark matter doesn't exist? Could it just be a misunderstanding of gravity?
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Does the Universe need dark matter?

The amazing ANITA experiment and the bizarre neutrinos they discovered
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Did NASA discover a parallel Universe?

Daniel and Jorge tackle the paradox of black holes: do they destroy information or store it forever?
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Do black holes destroy information?

Why do scientists think there might be a wispy mysterious particle? And why did they give it such a silly name?
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