Why This Universe?
Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman
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.
Episodes
74 - The Copernican Revolution (Ft. Aviva Rothman)December 04, 2023
73 - Life Beyond Earth (Ft. Avi Loeb and Garrett Graff at the Chicago Humanities Festival)November 20, 2023
72 - The Physics Of Music (Ft. Tim Cohen)November 06, 2023
71 - How the Universe Got Its StructureOctober 23, 2023
70 - WTU Live: Will Intelligent Life Persist in the Universe? (ft. Daniel Holz and Diana Powell)October 10, 2023
Special Announcement + ChatGPT On Unifying Quantum Mechanics and RelativitySeptember 28, 2023
69 - An Update on Modified Gravity (MOND)August 28, 2023
68 - The Age of the UniverseAugust 14, 2023
6 - Your Tour Through Quantum Weirdness (Rebroadcast)July 31, 2023
67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)July 17, 2023
66 - When Space Was Filled With MusicJuly 03, 2023
65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti)May 22, 2023
64 - The Journey to the Big BangMay 08, 2023
63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers)April 17, 2023
47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion? (Rebroadcast)March 27, 2023
62 - JWST and the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe (ft. Mike Boylan-Kolchin)March 13, 2023
61 - Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World?February 27, 2023
60 - The Search for Extra DimensionsFebruary 13, 2023
59 - The End of Everything (Ft. Katie Mack)January 09, 2023
58 - The Risks of Science PopulismDecember 12, 2022
57 - String Theory Part 3: DualityNovember 21, 2022
56 - An Icy Neutrino InterruptionNovember 07, 2022
55 - String Theory Part 2: The First Superstring RevolutionOctober 24, 2022
54 - String Theory Part 1: What Is It?October 03, 2022
53 - Why We Need a Theory of Quantum GravitySeptember 12, 2022