What Is String Theory?

FromDaniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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What Is String Theory?

FromDaniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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Dec 18, 2018

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Dec 18, 2018

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A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

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