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The world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism ponder your most popular “What If” questions.
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Episodes
Normally the idea of gorging yourself exclusively with sugar for 30 days would be a hypothetical, but over the holidays, it might not be. Peter and Richard and joined by...
It’s been a long strange journey for Nobel Prize winning astronomer Didier Queloz. In 1995, he and his team discovered the first “Exosolar Planet” i.e...
So What If a tornado hit an active volcano? To be honest, we have no idea. But you know who might be the only person on Earth who knows? It’s the host of the long...
What If you could live forever? Since the days of Ponce De Leon and the search for the Fountain of Youth, human beings have pursued longer lives, doing whatever they...
In 1991, 8 people walked into the first ever biosphere project, committed to live there, grow their own food, recycle their waste and sustain themselves on limited...
What do we really know about black holes? We’ve only recently even gotten a visual of an actual black hole, so not a lot. But although we can now see a black hole...
Do you drink energy drinks? Do you drink them everyday? Do you drink multiple ones everyday? Then you just might be addicted to energy drinks. But why is that so bad...
Everyone once in awhile a game comes along that transcends genre, subjective preferences or styles and just blows us up in a way that takes it from “game” to...
What do we really know about black holes? Are they even black? Are they even holes? And do they suck everything into them that comes close, like a huge cosmic vacuum...
Have you ever experienced seasonal affective disorder or S.A.D.? For those that have and do, the winter months can be a challenging time. Now, add a lockdown with...
Have you ever wondered if there are parallel universes? Earlier this year, a NASA study suggested there might be another universe where time goes backwards. Could that...
What do we really know about octopuses? For starters, they don’t have 8 tentacles…they’re called arms. Did you know they had 3 hearts? 9 brains? And...
So what do we really know about Jupiter? Generally speaking, most people know that Jupiter is big…the biggest planet in the solar system. We know it’s a...
Is the truth really “out there”? Long before Fox Mulder uttered that iconic phase on 90’s cult classic series “The X-Files”, the people...
The world was rocked recently by the announcement that signs of life might have been discovered on Venus? Unbelievable. Is the hottest planet in the Solar System showing...
Not like we don’t have enough things on our mind…but in case you don’t, “What If we blew up an asteroid?”. Assuming we’d be...
It’s easy to forget that long standing scientific theories are in fact, theories and therefore are subject to revision and change as new information comes to light...
How cool would it be if we could one day regulate our atmosphere, control the climate and maybe even blast threatening asteroids into stardust? Well, to do those things...
Do you ever wake up thinking, here we go again? Same stuff, different day? What many of us call “Groundhog Day” but physicists call a “Causal...
Peter Schmiedchen is the voice of What If. He also Head of our video team. Having voiced and managed over 500 videos, Peter was involved in the creation of every What If episode. His experience, everlasting curiosity and entertaining personality make him the perfect host of our podcast.
Richard Garner has produced, directed and hosted television and radio shows in a variety of genres on multiple platforms. He has always asked questions, been naturally curious about everything from the biggest existential questions to how peanut butter is made.
Teddy Wilson is a factual & entertainment television host and producer. He is a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee and a Gemini Award winner. Teddy is currently the host of Discovery Canada’s hit series Mighty Trains, traveling the world to highlight the engineering and people behind the most incredible rail journeys on earth.
Credits
Hosts: Richard Garner, Teddy Wilson, Peter Schmiedchen
Executive producer: Steve Hulford
Supervising producer: Richard Garner
Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik
Technical producers: Adam Karch, Antosia Fiedur and Demid Tumanov
Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh
Social media: Saida Mirzalimova
Artwork: Alex Griffith
Research: Jay Moon
Trailer: Evan Yue
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