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.

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65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti) 2023-05-22
64 - The Journey to the Big Bang 2023-05-08
63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers) 2023-04-17
47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion? (Rebroadcast) 2023-03-27
62 - JWST and the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe (ft. Mike Boylan-Kolchin) 2023-03-13
61 - Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World? 2023-02-27
60 - The Search for Extra Dimensions 2023-02-13
59 - The End of Everything (Ft. Katie Mack) 2023-01-09
58 - The Risks of Science Populism 2022-12-12
57 - String Theory Part 3: Duality 2022-11-21
56 - An Icy Neutrino Interruption 2022-11-07
55 - String Theory Part 2: The First Superstring Revolution 2022-10-24
54 - String Theory Part 1: What Is It? 2022-10-03
53 - Why We Need a Theory of Quantum Gravity 2022-09-12
52 - The Large Hadron Collider and All Its Glory 2022-08-22
51 - Why Physicists Love Smashing Particles Together 2022-08-01
50 - The Black Hole At the Center of the Milky Way 2022-07-11
49 - When the Universe Changed in an Instant 2022-06-27
48 - A Wrong Picture Of Cosmology 2022-05-23
13 - Does Quantum Mechanics Imply a Multiverse? (Rebroadcast) 2022-05-09
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