Is physics a universal language, or a description of the cosmos shaped by the particular minds that produced it? Daniel Whiteson is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine, active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and co-author of the acclaimed Do Aliens Speak Physics? Join Whiteson as he traces humanity’s journey to understand the universe – from the earliest Greek models of the cosmos to Einstein’s relativity – and how human physics might differ from the physics of other intelligent species. By comparing the two, Whiteson sheds light on the most fundamental question of science: whether our physics describes reality, or only ourselves.

Part 1: The Myth of the Universal Language: How mathematics and physics came to be regarded as the universal language of the cosmos.

Part 2: Rethinking Science, Perception, and Reality: Implications of the universality problem.

“Shows a way to think truly deeply about what physics is and how we come to learn about it.” — Sean Carroll