Why This Universe?
A podcast by Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman
106 Episodes
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58 - The Risks of Science Populism
Published: 12/12/2022 -
57 - String Theory Part 3: Duality
Published: 11/21/2022 -
56 - An Icy Neutrino Interruption
Published: 11/7/2022 -
55 - String Theory Part 2: The First Superstring Revolution
Published: 10/24/2022 -
54 - String Theory Part 1: What Is It?
Published: 10/3/2022 -
53 - Why We Need a Theory of Quantum Gravity
Published: 9/12/2022 -
52 - The Large Hadron Collider and All Its Glory
Published: 8/22/2022 -
51 - Why Physicists Love Smashing Particles Together
Published: 8/1/2022 -
50 - The Black Hole At the Center of the Milky Way
Published: 7/11/2022 -
49 - When the Universe Changed in an Instant
Published: 6/27/2022 -
48 - A Wrong Picture Of Cosmology
Published: 5/23/2022 -
13 - Does Quantum Mechanics Imply a Multiverse? (Rebroadcast)
Published: 5/9/2022 -
47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion?
Published: 4/25/2022 -
46 - The Cosmic Rays Raining Down On Us
Published: 4/4/2022 -
25 - Do Extra Dimensions Exist? (Rebroadcast)
Published: 3/14/2022 -
45 - The Wide World of Exoplanets (ft. Diana Powell)
Published: 2/28/2022 -
44 - Our Deepest Theory: Quantum Field Theory
Published: 2/14/2022 -
43 - Is Physics the Most Fundamental Subject?
Published: 1/31/2022 -
42 - The Signal That Could Be the Dark Matter
Published: 1/17/2022 -
41 - The Hubble Tension: The Biggest Fight in Astronomy (ft. Wendy Freedman)
Published: 1/3/2022
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.