106 Episodes

  1. 58 - The Risks of Science Populism

    Published: 12/12/2022
  2. 57 - String Theory Part 3: Duality

    Published: 11/21/2022
  3. 56 - An Icy Neutrino Interruption

    Published: 11/7/2022
  4. 55 - String Theory Part 2: The First Superstring Revolution

    Published: 10/24/2022
  5. 54 - String Theory Part 1: What Is It?

    Published: 10/3/2022
  6. 53 - Why We Need a Theory of Quantum Gravity

    Published: 9/12/2022
  7. 52 - The Large Hadron Collider and All Its Glory

    Published: 8/22/2022
  8. 51 - Why Physicists Love Smashing Particles Together

    Published: 8/1/2022
  9. 50 - The Black Hole At the Center of the Milky Way

    Published: 7/11/2022
  10. 49 - When the Universe Changed in an Instant

    Published: 6/27/2022
  11. 48 - A Wrong Picture Of Cosmology

    Published: 5/23/2022
  12. 13 - Does Quantum Mechanics Imply a Multiverse? (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 5/9/2022
  13. 47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion?

    Published: 4/25/2022
  14. 46 - The Cosmic Rays Raining Down On Us

    Published: 4/4/2022
  15. 25 - Do Extra Dimensions Exist? (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 3/14/2022
  16. 45 - The Wide World of Exoplanets (ft. Diana Powell)

    Published: 2/28/2022
  17. 44 - Our Deepest Theory: Quantum Field Theory

    Published: 2/14/2022
  18. 43 - Is Physics the Most Fundamental Subject?

    Published: 1/31/2022
  19. 42 - The Signal That Could Be the Dark Matter

    Published: 1/17/2022
  20. 41 - The Hubble Tension: The Biggest Fight in Astronomy (ft. Wendy Freedman)

    Published: 1/3/2022

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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.