Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Daniel and Jorge absorb listener questions, reflect on the answers and emit some silly jokesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge discuss the Kardashev Scale, Kardashians, Cryptocurrencies and crpytozoology.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge explore the mystery of inertia and whether a controversial theory can explain it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge debate whether the Higgs boson discovery marks the end of collider physics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bonus episode: Daniel and Jorge visit the metaverse to discuss what happens when particles, stars, galaxies or superclusters collide!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of "Umbrella Academy", "Time Traveler's Wife" and "Dark".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about what would happen if dark energy increased and tore the Universe apart.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether a new idea for dark matter might overcome some discrepancies in galaxy behavior.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the dark massive objects we've observed could be something stringier and stranger than black holes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about whether a future impact is predictable or random. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes can be blocked or can block other objects.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge wonder about which planets would float if you dunked them in a cosmic tub.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Kelly talk about what you might breathe if you opened your space-helmet on the surface of the Moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with Bell's experiment and the philosophical consequences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about what nothing looks like, whether Thor's hammer would destroy the Earth and rogue stars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about a new stealthy kind of neutrino that might neaten up the mess left by all of the other neutrinos.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel talks to mathematician Steve Strogatz about why calculus seems to describe the Universe so well.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge blow their own minds talking about the faster-than-light expansion of the Universe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about ingenious quantum tricks to send information without actual particles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about planetary rings and what they tell us about the history of the solar system.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the quest to build a crystal out of only electrons.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Kelly talk about how elements were made in the early Universe, what processes are making more of them today, and why some elements are more common than others.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel talks to experts about the waste produced by nuclear reactors, the dangers, risks and options.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge dissect the history of this mysterious solar system object. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge take a bite out of "nuclear pasta" and dive into the heart of these strange stars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge grapple with this hard-to-say word that might make complex quantum calculations much easier.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the surprises found in the first science from the James Webb telescope and what it means for our understanding of the early Universe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Kelly wrestle with competing infinities to understand why the night sky is not catastrophically ablaze with light. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about how discoveries are made, the most important recent discoveries and how to detect aliens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge grapple with the possibility that time could flow in more than one direction, at the same time(s). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about how one of the basic building blocks of matter is surprisingly impermanent and mysterious. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about what happens when one superstar of physics slams into another.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about the lengths people will go to avoid accepting the randomness of quantum mechanics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge break down the differences between the two-way and one-way speed of light.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes have a temperature and if we can ever know! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the Universe got an extra boost of expansion early on, and if it's cartoonists' fault. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Katie talk about where the missing matter in the Universe might be, and how slime molds might help us find it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel and Jorge walk through the first images from our fancy new space telescope! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.