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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe — 817 episodes

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1

Listener Questions #41

2

What is a species? (featuring Dr. Scott Egan)

3

Could the Earth be at the center of the solar system?

4

Listener Questions #40

5

Are rural raccoons becoming domesticated?

6

What is quantum contextuality?

7

Listener Questions #39

8

The Deep Seabed (featuring Dr. Andrew Thaler)

9

How do signals get jammed?

10

Listener Questions #38

11

The discovery of parasite life cycles

12

Can we use zero point energy?

13

Listener Questions #37

14

Will AI solve physics?

15

Listener Questions #36

16

Biofilms (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)

17

Does science fiction inspire real tech?

18

Listener Questions #35: Genetics (featuring Dr. Benjamin de Bivort)

19

Snakes vs Octopi (featuring Dr. Matt Giorgianni)

20

Does consciousness come from quantum processes in the brain?

21

Listener Questions #34

22

How cholera kills you and how we kill it

23

To swill or to smell: How John Snow determined the cause of cholera

24

Listener Questions #33

25

Do we live in a super bubble?

26

Is Cold Fusion impossible?

27

Listener Questions #32

28

Becoming Martian (featuring Dr. Scott Solomon)

29

Musk on the Moon

30

Listener Questions #31

31

Which planet has the most moons?

32

Why do animals cooperate?

33

Listener Questions #30

34

Why does the Universe minimize action?

35

Rabies

36

Bonus Episode: History Daily - The First Reported Case of the Spanish Flu

37

Listener Questions #29

38

Can cosmic rays corrupt computers?

39

What is interspecific brood parasitism?

40

Listener Questions #28

41

How fast are we moving?

42

Can quantum measurements change the past?

43

Listener Questions #27

44

What can we learn by smashing muons together?

45

Zombie fish

46

The several styles of singularities

47

Listener Questions #26

48

Perimenopause

49

What's the densest thing in the Universe that's not a black hole?

50

Listener Questions #25

51

How many rogue planets and stars are there?

52

How bad are microplastics?

53

Listener Questions #24

54

How do we predict the weather?

55

How do we control mosquito populations?

56

Listener Questions #23

57

The physics of shadows

58

Introducing : Inner Cosmos with Host David Eagleman and Guest Daniel Whiteson

59

How long have we been human? (featuring Dr. Scott Solomon)

60

Listener Questions #22

61

Can we engineer the sun?

62

How to make sense of quantum entanglement

63

How do parasites evade our immune system? (featuring Dr. John Hawdon)

64

Listener Questions #21 featuring Cat Bohannan

65

Do Aliens Speak Physics, with Andy Warner

66

How was the polio vaccine developed?

67

Listener Questions #20

68

Is physics discovered or invented?

69

Listener Questions #19

70

Must there be a single unified theory of physics?

71

How might aliens perceive the Universe?

72

Why do we age? (featuring Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan)

73

Relativistic beaming

74

Can we explore the galaxy with self-replicating probes?

75

Listener Questions #18

76

What came before the Big Bang?

77

The Mysteries of Magnetism

78

Does physics have to be causal and local?

79

Zombie ants

80

How does scientific peer review work?

81

How are scientific discoveries made?

82

How long will Moore's Law continue boosting computing power? (featuring Dr. Adam Becker)

83

Is the Universe Fine-tuned for life?

84

Phage therapy (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)

85

Listener Questions #17

86

Why do we sleep and dream? (featuring Dr. Gina Poe)

87

What are paraparticles?

88

Xenotransplantation

89

Unraveling misleading popular science

90

Listener Questions #16

91

What is toponium?

92

Killing the Speckled Monster: How We Eradicated Smallpox

93

Listener Questions #15

94

Can particle beams be used to treat cancer?

95

Could stars have black holes at their cores?

96

Going under: The history and mechanisms of general anesthesia

97

Listener Questions #14

98

How to become a parasite

99

Should we be worried about overpopulation or depopulation?

100

Listener Questions #13

101

How do we know what elements the Universe is made of?

102

Why are stars different colors?

103

Did Colossal bring back the dire wolf?

104

Listener Questions #12

105

What is the quantum internet?

106

Can humans survive interstellar travel?

107

Is it possible to travel to other stars?

108

When will space be cheap? (featuring Zach Weinersmith)

109

The Martian Revolution (featuring Mike Duncan)

110

Listener Questions #11

111

How and why do trees get so old?

112

Is the standard model of dark energy in trouble?

113

Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson)

114

Listener Questions #10

115

Why is mercury liquid at room temperature?

116

How did intelligence arise?

117

Can we see what's inside the electron?

118

Listener Questions #9

119

Was the Tyrannosaurus rex fast or slow? (Featuring Dr. John Hutchinson)

120

Where does energy come from?

121

Are Humans Still Evolving? (Featuring Scott Solomon)

122

How Does Memory Work? (Featuring Dr. Michael Yassa)

123

What is Entropy?

124

Is nuclear power good for the environment? (ft. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow)

125

What is the future of nuclear power?

126

Crab Body Plans (Featuring Dr. Jo Wolfe)

127

Listener Questions #8

128

How does consciousness emerge?

129

Nettie Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Chromosomes

130

What did Emmy Noether reveal about the Universe?

131

How Many Babies Should You Have? (featuring Katie Goldin)

132

Can fast-moving potatoes become black holes?

133

Listener Questions #7

134

Insulin (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)

135

Leeches (featuring Dr. Anna Phillips)

136

The Sexual Evolution (Featuring Dr. Nathan Lents)

137

Listener Questions #6

138

The science of taste and smell (with Steven Munger)

139

Can antimatter help us find dark matter?

140

Did the Earth ever have a ring?

141

Listener Questions #5

142

What is weak hypercharge?

143

Was the Big Bang left handed?

144

How do we defeat the dirt worms?

145

How did we tackle Trichinella?

146

Can tardigrades survive on the Moon?

147

Listener Questions #4

148

What is post-quantum gravity?

149

What is so beautiful about string theory?

150

DKEU Listener Questions Volume #3

151

Familes in space

152

Time travel fiction

153

Space Debris (featuring Dr. Jonathan McDowell)

154

Winter solstice listener questions

155

Who really wrote Maxwell's equations?

156

Holiday Special: santa, reindeer and long-lasting lamps

157

Listener Questions Volume #2

158

When animals break the law (featuring Mary Roach)

159

Why do planes fly?

160

The Expanse (featuring James S.A. Corey)

161

Do we have enough fuel for fusion?

162

Love, fear, greed, and asteroids (featuring Martin Elvis)

163

Thanksgiving Special: Talkin' Turkey

164

Listener Questions Volume #1

165

Cannibalism (featuring Volker Rudolf)

166

Exploration from the poles to the heavens

167

What's so exciting about quantum computing? (featuring Scott Aaronson)

168

What is a particle?

169

Off-Earth ethics (featuring Erika Nesvold)

170

How to keep Martians fed and happy

171

Halloween Special: Zombies and Ghosts

172

How to keep astronauts fed and happy

173

What is time?

174

What is space?

175

Death from the Skies! (featuring Phil Plait)

176

Are Earths rare in the Universe?

177

Challenges of Working on the Moon

178

Did Earth get a message from aliens?

179

Trailer: Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe

180

So long, and thanks for all the chocolate

181

Listener Questions 69

182

Listener Questions 68

183

Classic episode - How big is the Universe?

184

Listener Questions 67

185

Classic episode - What came before the Big Bang?

186

Could a huge void cause the illusion of dark energy?

187

Classic episode - When will the sun explode?

188

Listener Questions 66

189

Classic episode - Why is gravity so weird?

190

Are there comets in the asteroid belt?

191

Classic Episode - Is the Universe Random?

192

Could quantum clocks detect dark matter?

193

Classic Episode - Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

194

Listener Questions goes bananas!

195

What was the brightest explosion ever seen?

196

What's the fastest event ever measured?

197

The science fiction Universe of "Dark Matter"

198

What is the Physics of life?

199

What is an impossible color?

200

How to think like a physicist?

201

What is membrane theory?

202

Listener Questions 64: Phase of the Universe, particle interactions and Universe-sized black holes!

203

Do black holes have magnetic fields?

204

Listener Questions 63: Hawking radiation, mass, and anti-strings

205

How long is a photon?

206

Could humans live in the clouds of Venus?

207

Listener Questions 62: Single photons, moon gold and particle interactions.

208

Listener Questions 61.0158: Black holes, gold asteroids and gravitational waves in time!

209

Do neutrinos get redshifted?

210

Is the length of a day changing?

211

Listener Questions 60,491: Mini solar systems, greek physics and black holes!

212

Can supernovas cause ice ages?

213

Listener Questions 59: Interstellar probes and fractional electrons

214

Does dark matter have an anti-particle?

215

Why don't we have nuclear powered airplanes?

216

Listener Questions 58: Donuts, disaster and discoveries!

217

The science fiction Universe of "Constellation"

218

Listener Questions 57: Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics and Beta Decay!

219

Who was the most influential scientist?

220

What's the electric charge of the Universe?

221

Listener Questions 56: Neutron Stars, Dense matter and shared atmospheres!

222

What mysteries are hiding in the extra-galactic background light?

223

What’s the largest asteroid impact in Earth’s history?

224

Listener Questions 55: Time and waves!

225

What is quantum biology?

226

What is gravitoelectromagnetism?

227

Physics of the Internet

228

Listener Questions 54: String cosmology, cosmic strings, and alien numbers

229

Can element 115 be used for anti-gravity?

230

Listener Questions 53: Strong force, primordial atoms and infinities

231

How metallic is the Sun?

232

Listener Questions 52

233

Are physics and religion in harmony or conflict?

234

The most promising particle physics anomalies

235

Listener Questions 51

236

What happened to M33's black hole?

237

Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!

238

How does electricity work?

239

Physics of Chocolate

240

Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!

241

Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2)

242

Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1)

243

Are there charm quarks in the proton?

244

Why is quantum gravity so hard?

245

What is cold welding?

246

How is general relativity wrong?

247

Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes

248

Have interstellar meteors hit the Earth?

249

Can we see inside things using muons?

250

Why do some galaxies have bars?

251

What is quantum relativity?

252

Were all the forces once one?

253

What is the dark flow?

254

Listener Questions 47: Gravity, Time, Photons

255

What are octonions?

256

What's hidden inside planets?

257

How do particles carry forces?

258

How can we find life on other planets?

259

What are land tides?

260

What is a symmetron?

261

Does hot or cold water freeze faster?

262

Listener Questions 46: Mountains, ether and time!

263

What is the electrical charge of the moon?

264

Can planets share an orbit?

265

What shapes can galaxies take?

266

What’s the difference between inertial and gravitational mass?

267

Has our solar system lost any planets?

268

Are there galaxies without dark matter?

269

Does quantum mechanics conserve energy?

270

Listener Questions 45: Gravity and Black holes

271

The Science Fiction Universe of "Invasion"

272

Who was the first scientist?

273

The Science Fiction Universe of "Venemous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman

274

Why is there quantum uncertainty?

275

What did the early Universe sound like?

276

Can we settle space? Should we? Have we really thought this through?

277

What's the matter with matter in the Universe?

278

Listener Questions 44: Deep questions from listeners like you!

279

Which force(s) power the human senses?

280

Could we see moons around exoplanets?

281

Could we seed exoplanets with life?

282

Do Black Holes Have Hair?

283

Was the interstellar visitor oumuamua natural or artificial?

284

Could dark matter be making flashes of light?

285

Where is all the missing matter?

286

How does gravity escape a black hole?

287

Listener Questions 43: Light, heat and vision

288

Great, Big Questions about the Universe

289

How important is cosmic dust?

290

Explain the Universe: Behind the Scenes

291

How big is the smallest habitable planet?

292

Why do moving objects look shorter?

293

How do we measure the Higgs boson mass?

294

Listener Questions 42: Life, the Universe and Ghosts!

295

Why do scientists do simulations?

296

Have we seen more or fewer gravitational waves than expected?

297

Why is space so flat?

298

The Science Fiction Universe of "Meru" by SB Divya

299

What is the maximum vacuum?

300

The Science Fiction Universe of "Orbital Cloud"

301

What does the center of the galaxy look like?

302

How fast can a black hole spin?

303

How can we look for magnetic monopoles?

304

How massive is a neutrino?

305

How can we keep solar panels clean on Mars?

306

What is a non-Newtonian fluid?

307

Listener Questions 41: Questions about the mass of the Universe, moons made of gas, and backyard blackholes.

308

What everyone misunderstands about the Universe

309

How stable is the Earth's orbit?

310

Do things get more massive the faster they move?

311

How do planets get their moons?

312

Do all galaxies have central black holes?

313

How to use the whole galaxy to hear huge gravitational waves

314

What drives the movement of Earth’s continents?

315

What happens if you explode a nuclear bomb in space?

316

Listener Questions 40: Ways our Universe could end us

317

Could there be more than one theory of everything?

318

Why are some things transparent?

319

What is a superluminous supernova?

320

What color is the Sun?

321

Why does the Universe have antiparticles?

322

Could we reveal quantum gravity in a tabletop experiment?

323

What is tidal locking?

324

What's the best way to measure the expansion of the Universe?

325

Listener Questions 39: gravitons, antimatter and unified forces!

326

Will our supercluster be torn apart?

327

Do black holes have a maximum electric charge?

328

What did the night sky look like to the dinosaurs?

329

Could spacetime be a fluid?

330

Could black holes help form stars?

331

What weird thing in space is pulsing every 20 minutes?

332

What is a glueball?

333

How do we measure the gravitational constant?

334

Listener Questions about rogue planets and black holes!

335

Why can't two electrons be in the same place?

336

What can we learn from dwarf galaxies?

337

Why didn't we evolve around a red dwarf star?

338

How does carbon dating work?

339

Is there a better way to accelerate particles?

340

What does the Antikythera Mechanism do?

341

Listener Questions 37: quantum cats, heat death and dark multiverses!

342

Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?

343

Could we spot an alien nuclear blast?

344

Could some particles have tiny electric charges?

345

How can we measure the curvature of space?

346

How do space telescopes point themselves?

347

Listener Questions 36

348

Could black holes be making the Universe expand faster?

349

Do gravitational waves leave a mark on the Universe?

350

Can the Parker solar probe shed light on the Sun?

351

What's the problem with the Standard Model?

352

The Science Fiction Universe of "A Half Built Garden" by Ruthanna Emrys

353

355 Days in Space: Finding Meaning with Astronaut Mark Vande Hei

354

What's the real speed limit of the Universe?

355

Listener Questions 35: Exomoons, black holes and math!

356

Does gravity make rainbows?

357

Why can't stars fuse Iron?

358

Does particle spin affect life on Earth?

359

What's going on with Przybylski's Star?

360

The Science of "For All Mankind"

361

Does anti-matter feel anti-gravity?

362

Did NASA accidentally invent a warp drive?

363

Could a grand unified theory of physics be impossible?

364

Listener Questions about light and black holes

365

How powerful could a civilization get?

366

What is quantized inertia?

367

Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?

368

The biggest collisions in the Universe

369

The science of time travel television

370

What is the Big Rip?

371

Could dark matter be a superfluid?

372

Could black holes actually be fuzzballs?

373

Is there a pattern to asteroid impacts on Earth?

374

What is a black hole eclipse?

375

What is the densest planet?

376

Does the Moon have an atmosphere?

377

How do we know quantum mechanics is really random?

378

Listener Questions 33: Questions from your kids!

379

What are sterile neutrinos?

380

Why is math so important for physics?

381

How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?

382

Can you send messages without particles?

383

How do planets get rings?

384

Can you make matter out of pure electrons?

385

What are the most common elements in the Universe?

386

Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseball

387

How dangerous is nuclear waste?

388

What's up with Iapetus?

389

Can you communicate with neutrinos?

390

The Science of "The Spare Man"

391

What's it like to be an alien?

392

Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!

393

Why does physics even work?

394

What is negative temperature?

395

Is math the language of the Universe?

396

What are quantum glasses?

397

What will the Lucy mission teach us?

398

Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years?

399

What's inside a neutron star?

400

What's the amplituhedron?

401

Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory?

402

If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark?

403

Listener Questions about discoveries

404

Could there be two dimensions of time?

405

How long does a neutron live?

406

Can a gravitational wave pass through a black hole?

407

What is superdeterminism?

408

Is the speed of light the same in all directions?

409

Are black holes hot or not?

410

Listener Questions about aliens, black holes and white holes!

411

What is early dark energy?

412

What can slime molds teach us about dark matter?

413

What did the first JWST images reveal?

414

Why is momentum conserved?

415

What is laser fusion?

416

How do galaxies die?

417

What is a quark gluon plasma?

418

How do fireworks work?

419

What happens to event horizons when black holes collide?

420

Do photons bump into each other?

421

Listener Questions about Annihilation

422

What is Energy?

423

Could aliens teach us science?

424

Can the Earth survive when the Sun expands?

425

What will the next generation of space telescopes reveal?

426

Could the Universe be shaped like a donut?

427

Where is most of Earth's water?

428

What if gravity were much stronger?

429

Tech in the Great Outdoors

430

What does our black hole look like?

431

Is the whole Universe spinning?

432

What is a particle?

433

Can we defend the Earth from deadly space rocks?

434

What does the NICER telescope study?

435

Can we escape a black hole with a warp drive or wormhole?

436

Creature Feature: The Physics of Animal Color

437

Can the human eye see a single photon?

438

Introducing: Spyology Squad

439

What came first matter or energy?

440

What can neutrinos teach us about supernovas?

441

Is the W boson too massive?

442

Is nuclear power worth the risks?

443

The science fiction universe of "Lost in Space"

444

What are zombie stars?

445

What if the speed of light were slower?

446

Is it dangerous to send messages to aliens?

447

Are there particles that don't have anti-particles?

448

How big can a comet get?

449

What could aliens teach us about the Universe?

450

What will the new probes to Venus reveal?

451

Could we build a particle collider on the moon?

452

Can molton salt reactors produce electricity safely?

453

How to take over the world

454

Can we put black holes to work for us?

455

Why do stars twinkle?

456

What is dark radiation?

457

What is the future of exoplanet research?

458

Where does the Higgs get its mass?

459

Can you roast a marshmallow in space, and other listener questions.

460

Is there Uranium on Uranus?

461

Does the Universe have a preferred direction?

462

Why does the Higgs boson like Mexican hats?

463

Can we build a wormhole?

464

Listener questions about alien tech, the Earth's orbit and its future!

465

Is there an explanation for the Universe, or is it random?

466

The next revolution in theoretical physics

467

Could our galaxy have a dark matter center?

468

Could life have started much earlier in the Universe?

469

The mysterious phenomenon of turning sound into light

470

Do we know where dark matter is?

471

What's happening to the Hyades Cluster?

472

Why black holes are actually bright.

473

What happens when stars collide?

474

Did this particle cause the Big Bang?

475

What if the asteroid hadn't killed the dinosaurs?

476

Could quantum mechanics be deterministic?

477

What is Zodiacal Light?

478

Will starlink spoil astronomy?

479

Can something be both a conductor and insulator?

480

Did our Universe evolve?

481

How should we search for extra terrestrial intelligence?

482

Things that glow in the dark

483

Kids questions about the Universe!

484

The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

485

Could a solar flare wipe out humanity?

486

How to be a supervillain with physics.

487

How do we measure the speed of light?

488

Why do we think dark matter is made of particles?

489

How did exotic particles change the Universe?

490

What is Relational Quantum Mechanics?

491

Frequently Asked Listener Questions About the Universe!

492

Why does gravity slow down time?

493

How do you spot a wormhole?

494

Are black holes really black holes?

495

Are neutrinos hiding the dark matter?

496

Black Hole Questions!

497

What is a quantum eraser?

498

How many generations of stars will there be?

499

Is time pixelated?

500

What hidden symmetry is controlling the Universe?

501

Do fission reactors occur naturally?

502

Does the Universe need cause and effect?

503

Does the weak force attract or repel?

504

Is the Universe a hologram?

505

Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes and higgs fields!

506

Can you be motionless in space?

507

Why don't we have electric airplanes?

508

What will the Giant Magellan Telescope show us?

509

What is a space hurricane?

510

What's a proton made of?

511

What if our particles were different?

512

What is a light cone?

513

How many particles has the Large Hadron Collider discovered?

514

Why is the three-body problem so hard?

515

How many stars can a solar system have?

516

Listener Questions 16: pictures from space, antimatter stars and Jupiter-eating aliens!

517

Can we use the galaxy as a gravitational wave detector?

518

How does a plasma thruster work?

519

Can you outrun a flash of light?

520

How were pulsars discovered?

521

The SF Universe of Cadwell Turnbull's "The Lesson"

522

What's the cosmic gravitational background?

523

What do the Navy UFO videos really mean?

524

Is infinity real or just mathematical?

525

How many moons does the Earth have?

526

Listener Questions: photon information, simulated Universes and Daniel's fantasy science budget

527

The SF Universe of Essa Hansen's novel "Nophek Gloss"

528

Is it possible to have a two-dimensional object?

529

Are there stars made of dark matter?

530

Where are all the medium-sized black holes?

531

How was the cosmic microwave background discovered?

532

How many Higgs bosons are there?

533

Where did the Earth's atmosphere come from?

534

What did we learn from the Arecibo Radio Telescope?

535

Why does measuring a quantum object change it?

536

Can there be life INSIDE a black hole?

537

Listener Questions: the expanding observable Universe, what it's like to be a photon and the age of the Universe

538

What is Frame Dragging?

539

Is space-based solar power realistic?

540

Does Mars Have a Liquid Center?

541

What's the most promising theory of EVERYTHING?

542

What's the most powerful volcano in the Solar System?

543

Can the Universe exist without space?

544

The Science Fiction Universe of SB Divya

545

Can brains spontaneously form in space?

546

Listener Questions: Black Holes, Dark Entropy and a Radio Free Zone!

547

Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?

548

Did Fermilab just discover a new particle?

549

Have we solved the black hole information paradox?

550

What's a Tesseract?

551

Did Jupiter once have a different orbit?

552

What's the heaviest stable element?

553

What's the Huge Large Quasar Group?

554

What is the Space Roar?

555

What was the pioneer anomaly?

556

The Science Finction Universe of Lindsay Ellis

557

Daniel answers Listener Questions about black holes, antimatter stars and why the Universe exists!

558

Why does our Universe have a Cold Spot?

559

What are boson stars?

560

Daniel answers Listener Questions about the smell of space, the electroweak force and spotting distant aliens.

561

What are globular clusters?

562

What is a Quantum Dot?

563

Daniel answers Listener Questions about diamond rain on Jupiter, travel near the speed of light and the tilt of Uranus.

564

Can we see evidence of a previous Universe?

565

Can we build an invisibility cloak?

566

Daniel answers Listener Questions about hawking radiation, 5G networks and wireless phone chargers!

567

What's a Time Crystal?

568

What's the biggest star in the Universe?

569

Daniel answers Listener Questions about closed time-like curves, force fields, and the lifetime of the Earth's magnetic field

570

How do we know the mass of stars?

571

Listener Questions 14: Black holes, aliens and zombies!

572

Can a planet be bigger than its star?

573

Daniel answers Listener Questions about how to read science headlines, gravitational slingshots, lorentz symmetry and the speed of light!

574

Can we see planets in other galaxies?

575

Daniel answers Listener Questions about a donut Universe, mirrors and black holes!

576

Why can’t we see quantum effects in everyday objects?

577

Is space filled with infinite energy?

578

Daniel answers Listener Questions about energy conservation, inflation and space dust!

579

How was radiation discovered?

580

Are there centaurs in outer space?

581

Is there matter that is not made of particles?

582

What will the DragonFly mission find on Titan?

583

What's the fastest spinning thing in the Universe?

584

Daniel answers Listener Questions about the size of the Universe, what's in intergalactic space and why gravity dominates the Universe.

585

Daniel answers Listener Questions about dark matter, black holes and particle colliders

586

What happened in the dark ages of the Universe?

587

Can you undress a black hole?

588

The Sticky Story of the Gluon's Discovery

589

What's it like to fall into a black hole?

590

Listener Questions 13: Space water, wormhole colliders and boxes of dark matter

591

The SF Universe of Max Barry

592

What's the Oldest Thing in the Universe?

593

The surprising shape of the Milky Way

594

How to land a robot on an asteroid

595

The mysterious sources of the Van Allen radiation belts

596

What if the Earth Stopped Spinning

597

The Quantum Physics of Solar Panels

598

A discounted dark matter discovery

599

Is all of space magnetized?

600

Is Energy Actually Conserved?

601

The SF Universes of Vandana Singh

602

Where do comets come from?

603

Will the ITER experiment make fusion feasible?

604

New discoveries in our cosmic neighborhood

605

How can we bring rocks back from Mars?

606

Can a black hole power a spaceship?

607

Is there life on Venus?

608

The most common listener questions!

609

The SF Multi-verse of Adrian Tchaikovsky

610

What would happen if dark matter and dark energy disappeared?

611

Elinor Wonders About the Universe

612

What is Bose Einstein Condensate

613

What is Mirror Matter?

614

The SF Universe of Dr. Karen Lords

615

Listener Questions 12: Higgs Bosons, Black holes and earthquakes!

616

How did we discover black holes?

617

What happened to the Superconducting Supercollider?

618

Do protons live forever?

619

Special 200th episode!

620

Did the XENON experiment just discover a weird axion?

621

How did supermassive black holes get so big?

622

The Marvelous Mystery of the Muon Magnetic Moment

623

Is dark matter hot?

624

How was the Higgs boson discovered?

625

What are quasi-particles

626

Can neutrinos explain why we have matter?

627

Listener Questions 11: Deep questions about gravity and particles.

628

Does the Universe need dark matter?

629

Did NASA discover a parallel Universe?

630

Do black holes destroy information?

631

What is the axion?

632

The SF Universe of Alastair Reynolds "Revenger"

633

What are primordial black holes?

634

Is the impossible drive possible?

635

The long race for the top quark

636

Where in the solar system might we find life? (ft. Katie Goldin of Creature Features)

637

How do you navigate in deep space?

638

Can stars eat other stars?

639

Why are neutrinos so light?

640

Can we see the surface of exoplanets?

641

What is the real charge of the electron?

642

Could Jupiter turn into a star?

643

What are the basic constants of the Universe?

644

Listener Question 10: Particles, stars and universe-sized black holes!

645

Can Dark Matter feel itself

646

How do LEDs work?

647

Should we believe any alien abduction stories?

648

Does Stephen Wolfram's Theory of Everything Work?

649

The SF Universe of Sue Burke's "Semiosis"

650

Can planets lose their atmospheres?

651

What is the Cosmological Constant?

652

How quarks were discovered?

653

What is the tallest mountain in the solar system?

654

The SF Universe of Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Calculating Stars"

655

Could dark matter be made of quarks?

656

The SF Universe of Becky Chamber's "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet"

657

Listener Questions 9

658

What are virtual particles?

659

The SF Universe of Blake Crouch's "Recursion"

660

How small is an electron?

661

Why is strange matter so strange?

662

The science fiction universe of "Ancillary Justice"

663

What is the biggest explosion in the universe

664

Is it possible to move the sun?

665

Is the Universe infinite?

666

What have we learned from the Spitzer Space Telescope?

667

Choose your own physics adventure!

668

Can quantum gravity save physics?

669

Listener Questions 8: Can AI understand humor?

670

What causes the biggest explosions in the universe?

671

Are there planets without a star?

672

Can you slow down light?

673

What is the great attractor?

674

Can particles travel faster than light?

675

4 ways physics could end the world

676

Is Betelgeuse about to explode?

677

Why can quarks never be alone?

678

Is space filled with junk?

679

Why is the universe inflating?

680

What will the new space telescope reveal?

681

Why do some particles die?

682

Is the universe left-handed?

683

Can you destroy a black hole?

684

How does relativity affect our perception of time?

685

How was antimatter discovered?

686

What are cosmic strings?

687

What is quantum spacetime foam?

688

What are magnetic monopoles?

689

How fast is the universe blowing up?

690

Is there a fifth force of the universe?

691

Listener Questions 7

692

The mystery of the missing neutrinos

693

Where is the coldest place in the Universe?

694

Is our solar system weird?

695

Who ordered the muon?

696

Can science predict what you will do?

697

Is it possible to send messages faster than light using quantum entanglement?

698

Is there weather in space?

699

News from the Solar System

700

Journey to the Beginning of Time (featuring Dan Hooper)

701

What's in the asteroid belt?

702

Does Quantum Mechanics make sense?

703

Can we build a warp drive?

704

How do we know the photon is real?

705

Can you imagine a color you've never seen?

706

What is the cosmic microwave background?

707

Listener Questions 6

708

What are fermi bubbles?

709

How many stars can you see in the night sky with the naked eye?

710

What are fast radio bursts and what causes them?

711

The shocking mystery of lightning explained

712

Will the Higgs-Boson destroy the universe?

713

How to see pictures of dinosaurs (featuring XKCD creator Randall Munroe)

714

What is the physics behind skipping stones?

715

How do microwaves work?

716

What are Tardigrades?

717

What was the first particle ever discovered? And how was it discovered?

718

Why is half of the moon always hidden?

719

What is a graviton?

720

What would happen on earth if the moon disappeared?

721

Listener Questions 5

722

What would happen if the sun became a black hole?

723

What are white holes?

724

Take a cruise of the exoplanets

725

How old is the earth?

726

Do aliens exist?

727

Can you see an electron or other tiny particles?

728

What is the strongest magnet in the universe?

729

Why haven't aliens visited us?

730

What is the Weak Force?

731

What is Cold Fusion?

732

How do you make gold?

733

How do MRIs work?

734

What is the hexagon on saturn?

735

What is Quantum Tunneling?

736

Can you sail on light?

737

What is the densest thing in the universe?

738

What do Quarks taste like?

739

Listener Questions 4

740

What is the brightest thing in the universe?

741

Is the Earth round?

742

How can we see Dark Matter?

743

Listener Questions 3

744

What Is Radiation?

745

What Is the Hottest Thing In The Universe?

746

What Is A Dyson Sphere?

747

Bad Science Questions

748

What Is Quantum Spin?

749

What Is The Emptiest Place In The Universe?

750

What's In Jupiter's Great Red Spot?

751

Will A Gamma Ray Burst Kill You?

752

What's Inside The Earth?

753

How Does A Bicycle Balance?

754

Why Does Time Go Forwards?

755

What Is A Tachyon?

756

What is Supersymmetry?

757

Questions From The Zeitgeist (ft The Daily Zeitgeist hosts)

758

What Is A Space Elevator?

759

Can You See A Black Hole?

760

What Are The Weirdest Stars?

761

What's Under The Ice On Europa?

762

What's The Biggest "Thing" in The Universe?

763

Listener Questions 2.0

764

What Is A Superconductor?

765

What Was Oumuamua?

766

What Are Quantum Fields?

767

What Is Time Dilation?

768

Why Do We Have Stars?

769

How Does A Laser Work?

770

How Old Is The Universe?

771

What's At The Center Of The Galaxy?

772

Is Anti-Gravity Technology Possible?

773

Where Does The Earth's Magnetic Field Come From?

774

Are Wormholes Real?

775

What Is Terraforming?

776

What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean?

777

What Nobel Prizes Have Been Proven Wrong?

778

Is A New Particle Collider Worth $20B?

779

How Did The Moon Form?

780

What Are Cosmic Rays?

781

Is The Multiverse Real?

782

How Can We Tell The Distance To Stars?

783

What Is The Most Important Invention In Human History? (ft. Ryan North)

784

Listener Questions

785

What Is A Quantum Computer?

786

What Happens When Galaxies Collide?

787

Why Is Gravity So Weird?

788

Is the Universe pixelated?

789

Are there other Earths out there?

790

Was/Is There Life On Mars?

791

What Is String Theory?

792

Will Physics Ever Explain Everything?

793

What Is A Dimension And How Many Are There?

794

What is a Neutrino?

795

How Does a Nuclear Bomb Work?

796

Is Teleportation Possible?

797

Is the Universe Random?

798

Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

799

The Baby Universe (ft. Katie Mack)

800

Can We Travel Faster Than Light?

801

Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

802

Are there Aliens?

803

Is Anti-Matter a Real Thing?

804

How will the Universe die?

805

What is making the Universe explode?

806

Will an Asteroid Kill You?

807

What's Inside a Black Hole?

808

How Big is the Universe?

809

What's the smallest piece of matter? Is there one?

810

What is everything made of?

811

What are Gravitational Waves?

812

When will the Sun explode?

813

Is Time Travel Possible?

814

What came before the Big Bang?

815

Is the Higgs Boson useful?

816

Are we Living in a Simulation?

817

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