Quarks to Cosmos
Episodes
How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 1
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1933, Hungarian physicist and Jewish refugee Leo Szilard was struck by a world-altering idea while crossing a London street. Irritated by...
What is the Smallest Particle in the Universe
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The experience of mass is one of the most primal and intuitive aspects of our lives, yet its origin is one of the deepest mysteries in science. For ce...
How Feynman Diagrams Saved Physics
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our everyday intuition suggests that empty space should be weightless, as there is seemingly "nothing" there; however, gravity measurements ...
Where does Mass Come From
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The experience of "mass" is so primal and intuitive that we rarely question its origins, yet it is one of the deepest and most complex stori...
Can AI Save Particle Physics
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The particle physics community reached a historic peak in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson, a triumphant vindication of decades of theoretic...
Future Circular Collider: The Most Expensive Machine in History
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) represents the most ambitious scientific instrument ever proposed—a subterranean ring 91 kilometers long that wou...
Quantum Mechanics: The Quantum Future
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum mechanics isn’t just a theoretical playground—it’s changing everything. From the lasers in your phone to MRI scans that save lives, quan...
Quantum Mechanics: The Battle of Legends, Bohr vs Einstein
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Einstein hated quantum mechanics. He called it "spooky action at a distance" and spent decades trying to prove it was wrong. But Niels Bohr fou...
Quantum Mechanics: Why Precision is Impossible
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the classical world, you can measure where something is and how fast it’s moving with perfect accuracy. But in the quantum world? Not a chance. I...
Quantum Mechanics: The Experiment That Broke Reality
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine firing a tiny particle at a barrier with two slits. It should go through one or the other, like a bullet. But in the double-slit experiment, s...
Quantum Mechanics: Bohr’s Atomic Playground
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Atoms should be unstable. According to classical physics, electrons should spiral into the nucleus in a fraction of a second. Yet, atoms persist, and ...
Quantum Mechanics: Planck’s Last Resort and The Birth of Quantum Mechanics
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1900, Max Planck wasn’t trying to revolutionize physics—he was just trying to fix an equation. Instead, he stumbled upon one of the most shocki...
Quantum Mechanics: Crisis in Newtonian Mechanics
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, physics was a world of certainty—planets orbited predictably, forces followed rules, and everything seemed explainable. But by the la...
Special Relativity: Connecting to General Relativity
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode, Jennifer and Inara explore how Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity revolutionized physics, paving the way for General Rel...
Special Relativity: Paradoxes of Relativity
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Relativity's Greatest Paradoxes: Breaking the Boundaries of Space and TimeIn this episode, Jennifer and Inara dive into some of relativity’s mos...
Special Relativity: Speed of Light and Its Paradoxes
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond the Speed of Light: Causality, Cosmic Expansion, and the Limits of RelativityFor over a century, Einstein’s theory of relativity has stood as...
Special Relativity: E=mc², Unraveling Mass-Energy Equivalence
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
E=mc²: The Equation That Changed the UniverseIn 1905, Albert Einstein published a three-page paper that forever changed physics. His equation, E=mc²...
Special Relativity: Length Contraction and the Relativity of Simultaneity
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Episode three of our six part series on the Theory of Special Relativity: SimplifiedImagine a world where reality shifts as you speed through ...
Special Relativity: How Time Dilation Works?
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Episode two of our six part series on the Theory of Special Relativity: SimplifiedImagine this: You board a spacecraft, accelerating to near t...
Special Relativity: The Foundations
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Episode 1 of our series on the Theory of Special Relativity: SimplifiedImagine a universe where time bends, stretches, and warps—where two p...