Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What is negative temperature? Sep 27, 2022

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Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!

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Is math the language of the Universe? Sep 22, 2022

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Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered.

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What are quantum glasses? Sep 20, 2022

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Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses.

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What will the Lucy mission teach us? Sep 15, 2022

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Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins.

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Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years? Sep 13, 2022

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Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler!

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What's inside a neutron star? Sep 08, 2022

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Daniel and Jorge take a bite out of "nuclear pasta" and dive into the heart of these strange stars.

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What's the amplituhedron? Sep 06, 2022

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Daniel and Jorge grapple with this hard-to-say word that might make complex quantum calculations much easier.

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Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory? Sep 01, 2022

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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.

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If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark? Aug 30, 2022

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Daniel and Kelly wrestle with competing infinities to understand why the night sky is not catastrophically ablaze with light.

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Listener Questions about discoveries Aug 25, 2022

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Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners about how discoveries are made, the most important recent discoveries and how to detect aliens.

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