Why This Universe?

Host Dan Hooper traces the history of light theories from ancient Greek philosophers like Empedocles and Euclid to Newton’s particle model and Huygens’ wave theory.

Hosts Shalma Wegsman and Dan Hooper share their top seven physics news stories, ranging from high-energy neutrino detections to the Hubble tension.

Hosts Dan Hooper and Shalma Wegsman interview physicist David Kaplan about nonlinear quantum mechanics, a theoretical modification to the Schrödinger equation.