Spherical Cow
Two Sixth Form students who love discussing interesting physics topics!
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 23
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
The End of the Beginning
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This week unfortunately marks the final episode of Spherical Cow. Thank you so much for supporting our podcast - we hope you have enjoyed the episodes!
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Cosmic Dawn
And sound too!
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This week we are continuing our discussion about the history of the universe and once again talking about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. We will be discussing…
Let there be light!
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This week we are discussing the surface of last scattering and cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR).
We will be talking about what CMBR is, how it was di…
A melting pot of matter
Then came the Big...
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This week we are continuing our journey through the history of the universe and discussing inflation and reheating. We will be talking about what inflation is, w…
It started with a bang!
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This week we are venturing all the way back to the birth of the universe! We will be discussing the big bang, the Planck epoch and the GUT era.
To view our sourc…
The darker side of the universe
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This week we will be discussing dark energy! We will be exploring the evidence for dark energy, how scientists determined the expansion of the universe is accele…
A very dark matter...
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This week, we are talking about Dark Matter! We will be discussing why the notion of dark matter was first introduced, what evidence there is for the existence o…
Mooos Flash!
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This episode is all about the exciting Particle Physics News from CERN and Fermilab which came out around March-April time. We will be discussing the results pub…
Nothing really antimatters
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This week we are discussing the topic of antimatter! What is antimatter? How was antimatter first discovered? Why is there such an imbalance between matter and a…
Your questions answered! - Part 3
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This episode is the last installment in our series of q&a episodes. We will be discussing some of the fascinating quantum mechanics questions you have sent in in…
Your questions answered! - Part 2
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This week we are continuing to answer all the great questions you have sent in! We will be discussing how we know the universe is expanding, where the universe w…
Your questions answered! - Part 1
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To celebrate the tenth episode of our podcast, this week we will be answering interesting physics questions sent in by you! Thank you very much for all your great qu…
So light is both! And sort of neither...
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This week we are bringing our miniseries about the history of light, the birth of quantum mechanics and particle-wave duality to a close. In this episode we are …
Yes, light is a particle!
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This week we are continuing our journey through the history of light, the birth of quantum mechanics and particle-wave duality! In this episode we are carrying …
Hang on...is light actually a particle?
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This week we are continuing our miniseries about the history of light, the birth of quantum mechanics and particle-wave duality! In this episode we will be discu…
Light is a wave!
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This week marks the beginning of our miniseries about the history of light, the birth of quantum mechanics and particle-wave duality! This episode is all about …
Under Pressure! - Part 2
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This week's episode is the second part of our double episode about Pressure! We will be discussing why it is important for divers to slowly ascend after being un…
Under Pressure! - Part 1
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This week's episode is the first part of a double episode all about Pressure! In this week's episode we will be discussi…