Is our corner of the universe weird?

For the longest time, we thought that Earth was everything.

But people used to wonder about the nature of the universe they were mostly thinking about

the rules for how things worked down here.

Even the stars just seemed like sort of decorations in this guy.

Now of course we know that there's much more out there.

An hour little slice of this planet is the tiniest fraction of the space in the solar system

which is an infinitesimal speck of the volume of the galaxy which of course is a tiniest

drop in intergalactic space.

And the stuff that goes on out there in the rest of the universe is super crazy.

It's a bonkers universe out there filled with black holes and pulsars and giant jets

and crazy conditions.

So is our corner of the universe weird or is it the least weird place in the cosmos?

Hi, I'm Daniel.

I'm a particle physicist and I have the weirdest questions about our weird cosmos.

And welcome to the podcast, Daniel and Jorge explained the universe, a production of I Heart

Radio in which we dare to ask the biggest questions about the biggest things in the universe.

We explore the tiniest little particles and ask those tiny little questions about

what those crazy little quantum objects are doing.

But mostly we join you in the struggle to understand the nature of this universe that we find

ourselves in.

But we marinate in the joy of that wonder and that curiosity we embrace it.

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