Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Jorge talk about how astronomers are trying to detect planets in far away galaxies!

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Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/

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Daniel and Jorge talk about quantum decoherence and why big things don't act like quantum particles.

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Daniel and Jorge tackle the confusing conundrum of the Casimir Effect and quantum zero-point energy

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Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours: https://sites.uci.edu/daniel/public-office-hours/

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X-rays, U-rays, and cosmic rays! Hear the story for how we came to understand that our world is filled with invisible dangers.

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Centaurs are real, but not on Earth. Daniel and Jorge talk about the weird objects astronomers call a "space centaur"

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Is it possible that matter could be made of something that's not particles?

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NASA is building an awesome drone to fly around the surface of Saturn's moon. What will it find?

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Part of their "Extreme Universe" series, Daniel and Jorge make your head spin with all of the crazy spinning objects in the Universe.

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Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours:

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Daniel answers questions from listeners like you! Got questions? Come to Daniel's public office hours:

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Before the stars and galaxies formed, the Universe was dark and foggy for hundreds of millions of years!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about whether it's possible to observe a "naked singularity"

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What is the gluon and how was it discovered? Daniel and Jorge take us through the dramatic events.

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Take a cosmic field trip with Daniel and Jorge, as they guide you on a thought experiment into the heart of the most mysterious objects in the Universe.

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners, like you! Submit yours, to questions@danielandjorge.com

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In Max Barry's new novel "Providence", humanity runs into aliens. It doesn't go well.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the age of stars, galaxies, black holes and more!

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How do we know the shape of our galaxy, since we're stuck in the middle of it?

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NASA sent Osiris-Rex to scoop a cup of dirt from an asteroid ... using a pogo stick!

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the strange belts of particles surrounding the Earth, and the South Atlantic Anomaly

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What makes planets spin, and what would happen if they stopped?

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Daniel and Jorge break down the physics and engineering behind solar panels

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Why do particle physicists discount the beautiful signal of dark matter from the DAMA experiment?

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Is it possible that there are magnetic fields.... everywhere?

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Daniel and Jorge explore whether energy is actually a fundamental conserved quantity.

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the creative science in the short stories of Vandana Singh's collection "Ambiguity Machines"

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Daniel and Jorge talk about the vast and amazing Oort cloud, and whether it is throwing snowballs at us.

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Will humans figure out how to make fusion work on Earth, to provide plentiful clean power?

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Daniel and Jorge talk about a new massive blob of galaxies discovered right around the corner.

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How many robots does it take to dig up rocks from Mars and deliver them back to Earth?

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Daniel and Jorge tackle the physics, engineering and safety questions of using a black hole to visit nearby stars.

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

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

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Dark matter and dark energy are 95% of the energy in the Universe. But do we need them?

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

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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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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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