Podcast Episodes

Is there a better way to accelerate particles?

Daniel and Jorge talk about why its so expensive to build a super collider and how plasma technology might make it all better, faster, cheaper. 

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3 years ago

What does the Antikythera Mechanism do?

Daniel and Katie explore the puzzle of the "world's first computer", and what it might have calculated.

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3 years ago

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

Daniel and Jorge answer questions about quantum mechanics, the end of the Universe, and the multiverse. 

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3 years ago

Would the Universe be different with a zero Higgs field?

Daniel and Jorge explore how the Higgs field shapes our Universe and what it would be like to live without it.

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3 years ago

Could we spot an alien nuclear blast?

Daniel and Jorge talk about whether we have the technology to spot a nuclear war on other planets.

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3 years ago

Could some particles have tiny electric charges?

Daniel and Jorge wonder about why particles have charge, and whether particles could exist with tiny electrical charge.

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3 years ago

How can we measure the curvature of space?

Daniel and Jorge bend their minds (and yours) around the curvy topic of bent space.

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3 years ago

How do space telescopes point themselves?

Daniel and Jorge talk about how our great space eyeballs know where they are looking and how they turn.

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3 years ago

Listener Questions 36

Daniel and Jorge talk about 3-armed galaxies, the color of the Universe and its phases.

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3 years ago

Could black holes be making the Universe expand faster?

Daniel and Jorge discuss a brand new result that suggests that black holes might be driving the unexplained expansion of the Universe

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3 years, 1 month ago