Hey Daniel, I have a question for you that you might not like.

Uh oh, what is it?

It's about aliens, your favorite topic.

Ooh, I love it already.

What is it?

Okay, so if we can't send messages faster than light, right?

All the other planets are light years away.

But in any communication or messages exchanged with aliens take years or decades?

Oh, you're right, I don't like that question.

Hi, I'm Jorge M. Cartoonis and the creator of PhD Comics.

Hi, I'm Daniel, I'm a particle physicist and the co-author of our book.

We have no idea, a guide to the unknown universe that tells you all the things we don't know

about the universe.

Yeah, it's a great book, which also functions as a nice quantum banana stand.

Or anything stand really once you're done reading it.

It's multipurpose.

You could buy thousands of copies and build a house out of them.

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

Radio.

We try to find amazing and crazy and fascinating things about our universe and explain them

to you.

We want to take you to the cutting edge of science and break it down so that you have a

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