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Listener Questions #19
Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about how pinworms know it's nighttime, how quarks contribute to mass, and why eating too many carrots makes your skin yellow.
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Published on 2 months ago
Must there be a single unified theory of physics?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Ethan Siegal about whether we should expect physics to be explained by a single unified theory.
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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
How might aliens perceive the Universe?
Daniel and Kelly talk about how aliens might experience the Universe and how it might shape their science, a topic from Daniel's new book "Do Aliens Speak Physics?"
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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Why do we age? (featuring Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan)
Daniel and Kelly get answers to listener questions about why we age from Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, author of "Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality".
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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Relativistic beaming
Daniel and Kelly talk about how gravity, magnetism and relativity work together to create one of the most brilliant spectacles in the Universe.
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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Can we explore the galaxy with self-replicating probes?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Metzger about the engineering challenges of building self-replication space probes.
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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Listener Questions #18
Daniel and Kelly answer questions about gravtational slingshots, megafauna and microscopic black holes!
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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
What came before the Big Bang?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Phil Halper about the many mysteries of the origins of the Universe.
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Published on 3 months ago
The Mysteries of Magnetism
Daniel and Kelly dig into the mysteries of magnetism, explaining how magnets work and what they reveal about the Universe.
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Published on 3 months ago
Does physics have to be causal and local?
Daniel and Kelly talk to Sean Carroll about where some of the basic assumptions we make about the Universe come from, and whether we need them.
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Published on 3 months, 1 week ago