106 Episodes

  1. 8 - Is Space Flat or Curved?

    Published: 12/18/2023
  2. 74 - The Copernican Revolution (Ft. Aviva Rothman)

    Published: 12/4/2023
  3. 73 - Life Beyond Earth (Ft. Avi Loeb and Garrett Graff at the Chicago Humanities Festival)

    Published: 11/20/2023
  4. 72 - The Physics Of Music (Ft. Tim Cohen)

    Published: 11/6/2023
  5. 71 - How the Universe Got Its Structure

    Published: 10/23/2023
  6. 70 - WTU Live: Will Intelligent Life Persist in the Universe? (ft. Daniel Holz and Diana Powell)

    Published: 10/10/2023
  7. Special Announcement + ChatGPT On Unifying Quantum Mechanics and Relativity

    Published: 9/28/2023
  8. 69 - An Update on Modified Gravity (MOND)

    Published: 8/28/2023
  9. 68 - The Age of the Universe

    Published: 8/14/2023
  10. 6 - Your Tour Through Quantum Weirdness (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 7/31/2023
  11. 67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)

    Published: 7/17/2023
  12. 66 - When Space Was Filled With Music

    Published: 7/3/2023
  13. 65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti)

    Published: 5/22/2023
  14. 64 - The Journey to the Big Bang

    Published: 5/8/2023
  15. 63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers)

    Published: 4/17/2023
  16. 47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion? (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 3/27/2023
  17. 62 - JWST and the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe (ft. Mike Boylan-Kolchin)

    Published: 3/13/2023
  18. 61 - Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World?

    Published: 2/27/2023
  19. 60 - The Search for Extra Dimensions

    Published: 2/13/2023
  20. 59 - The End of Everything (Ft. Katie Mack)

    Published: 1/9/2023

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The biggest ideas in physics, broken down. Join theoretical physicist Dan Hooper and co-host Shalma Wegsman as they answer your questions about dark matter, black holes, quantum mechanics, and more. Part of The University of Chicago Podcast Network.