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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.

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    • Natural Sciences
    • 3.7 • 3 Ratings

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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.

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    Listener Questions 51

    Listener Questions 51

    Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the speed of light, entanglement and time!
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    • 50 min
    What happened to M33's black hole?

    What happened to M33's black hole?

    Daniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33
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    • 46 min
    Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows!

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

    Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!
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    • 48 min
    How does electricity work?

    How does electricity work?

    Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge.
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    • 59 min
    Physics of Chocolate

    Physics of Chocolate

    Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate.
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    • 1 hr 13 min
    Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves!

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

    Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes.
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    • 50 min

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