Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Kelly talk about difficulties encountered during polar expeditions, and how we can avoid making these same mistakes when we begin exploring Mars. 

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Scott Aaronson about quantum computing, and try to bust through the most common misconceptions. 

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Daniel and Kelly try to get an solid mental picture of this particularly slippery concept

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. Erika Nesvold about ethical questions we should be asking as we prepare to become a multiplanetary species. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the future of food in space. Do you like lukewarm cricket tacos? 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about Toxoplasma gondii, and the "science" of ghost hunting.

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Daniel and Kelly discuss the often less-than-delicious history of food in space. 

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Daniel and Kelly take some time to puzzle of the nature of time, an eternally timely mystery.

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Daniel and Kelly wrestle with the the fabric of the Universe itself. What is it, what can it do and why do we have it?

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Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Phil Plait about some of the ways space could wipe us all out, or at least really mess up our infrastructure. 

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Daniel and Kelly discuss the Rare Earth Hypothesis, that argues that Earth-like life is vanishingly rare.

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Daniel and Kelly cover some of the many reasons why it's tough to work on the Moon. 

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Daniel and Kelly talk about why we listen to the skies, the amazing WOW signal and a recent theory for what it means.

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Daniel and Katie answer a question about what it would look like to warp through space with the Enterprise

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Daniel and Kelly answer a question about whether space can be infinite and finite

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Does the Universe go on forever, or have an end? What shape is it?

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about moving planets, the Higgs field, and the future of particle physics.

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What could have caused the Big Bang, and what came before it?

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether our galaxy is in the middle of a giant void that could have fooled us into thinking the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.

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How long can we enjoy the sunshine before we need a new star?

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about galaxy collisions, black holes and Nitrogen!

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Why is gravity so much weaker than the other forces?

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Daniel and Jorge try to clarify the distinction between our neighborhood space objects and what it means if we find them out of place.

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If you repeat the same experiment, do you get the same outcome?

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Daniel and Jorge talk about new ways to find dark matter, using space microwave ovens.

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What is light made of? A particle, a wave, both, neither? Little puppies?

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about banana decays and black hole velocities.

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Daniel and Jorge look right into the beam of incredible astronomical explosions.

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Daniel and Jorge slice time down to its shortest slivers to understand how fast things can happen in the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge talk to a screenwriter and scientific advisor for the multi-verse show, "Dark Matter"

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Sara Imari Walker, author of "Life as No One Knows it" about what life is and what aliens might look like.

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Daniel and Jorge explore the edges of our colorful experience of the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge discuss whether physicists think about the world differently, and how that makes them more or less useful.

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Daniel and Katie use their p-branes to explore a theory of everything build on vibrating membranes.

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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 try to resist the magnetic attraction of the mysteries of black holes, and fail.

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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 wrestle with the tricky question of the length of a photon, and end up talking about hotdogs and meatballs.

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Daniel and Kelly talk to Guillermo Sohnlein about life in the Venutian clouds

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

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Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens to neutrinos as the Universe expands.

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Daniel and Katie spin a tale of how the velocity of the Earth's surface is changing under our feet.

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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 talk about how the greatest cosmic fireballs might trigger ice ages here on Earth.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions about travel to and from other stars and whether scientists have split the electron.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the relationship between matter, dark matter and anti-matter!

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Daniel and Kelly talk about whether planes could be powered by nuclear reactors and whether that would be a bad idea, or a very bad idea.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel talks to Peter Harness, screenwriter for "Constellation", about the quantum rules of his fictional Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!

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Daniel talks to Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of "The Man From the Future" about the life and impact of John von Neumann

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Daniel and Katie reveal the shocking truth about the balance between positive and negative particles.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: questions@danielandjorge.com

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Daniel and Jorge explore the challenges of detecting light from outside the Milky Way, and the secrets it might reveal.

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Daniel and Kelly review the most cataclysmic impacts in our planet's history.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: questions@danielandjorge.com

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Daniel and Kelly explore how biological systems rely on the quantum nature of matter.

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Daniel and Katie bushwack their way between theories of gravity and electromagnetism, looking for the elusive connection.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about how our understanding of physics is central to making the internet work.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: questions@danielandjorge.com

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Daniel and Jorge talk about real science of element 115 and whether it aligns with the spectacular story of anti-gravity alien ships at Area 51.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: questions@danielandjorge.com

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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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