The Titanium Physicists Podcast
Dr. Ben Tippett and his team of physicists believe that anyone can understand physics. Black Holes! Lightning! Coronal Mass Ejections! Quantum Mechanics! Fortnightly, they explain a topic from advanced physics, using explanations, experiments and fun metaphors to a non-physicist guest. Visit the website to see a list of topics sorted by physics field.
- Update frequency
- every 25 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2020
Episode 66: Life On Mars
There are astrophysicists who study life on mars. specifically, the prospects of detecting life on mars. Zach Weinersmith Joins Catherine Neish and Briony Horgan and we talk about LIFE ON MARSSS…
Episode 65: New Ways of Looking
How does a camera work? no, a digital camera, I mean. yeah... yeah.. optics. I know all about lenses. how does the plate at the back.. the one the photons hit.. how does it turn photons into elect…
Episode 64: E and N (The edges of Einstein)
Maya Inamura Joins Me, Katie Mack and Leo Stein and we talk aboutTEST OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
Episode 63: Worldbuilding
Patrick Mchale makes his triumphant return to the show!
Astrophysicists Catherine Neish and Brian Jackson explain how planets form around stars, and why the planets we see around other stars are so w…
NONEPISODE: ben's feeling
Hi!LIGO just announced detecting.1. gravitational waves2. colliding black holes 1.3 billion years away.this is just me talking about my feelings about it.
Episode 62: Black Bells
Episode 61: Levitating Trains
*sorry about the audio quality**one guy was in china, and my mic broke and all sorts of bad stuff happened. :(*OH MAN!!!Erika Ensign, from all the dr. who podcasts, has come on our showso that Darren…
Episode 60: Meters Of Interference
Radio telescopes have really crummy resolution.but if we line them up and hook them together,
using a technique called "radio interferometry"
we can see the head of a screw 300 km away.
This epis…
Episode 59: Strange Truth and Charming Beauty
There is no force stronger.
Gravity? get out.
Electrostatics? no.
Love? incorrect.
THE STRONG FORCE!
Tia Miceli! Ken Clark! AND OUR SPECIAL GUEST RYAN NORTH!!!!
this is a really fun episode where …
Episode 58: Extraordinary Evidence
The Big bang.
How do we know it happened? How do we know what happened?Dr. Michael Zemcov and Dr. Katie Mack and I talk to the clever hosts of Encyclopedia Brunch. It's Tim Dobbs and Kathryn Cogert! …
Episode 57: Two Photons Walk Into An H Bar
BIOPHYSICS! Nicole Prent! Jacqueline Townsend! Broadway actor Brian Cross joins us to talk about how biophysicists use frequency doubling of photons To LOOK INSIDE CELLS! well, it's really cool I can…
Episode 56: What "In Tangles" Meant
Oh boy it's been a while since we got an episode scheduled, recorded, edited and out the door. but the wait has been worth it because THIS EPISDE IS AMAZING!
Dan Harmon (From Channel 101, The Sarah S…
Question Barn 8
Ken Clark Joins me!
we answer Ramiro's question, who asked
"I have heard that bosons are the force carriers. So what force is the higgs boson "carrying" ?"
Episode 55: Laser Laser Laser Laser Laser Laser
Appologies.
- the audio turned out way crunchier than i thought it would be while we recorded. I tried to fix it.
- My "Doctor Evil" impression is way crappier than it sounded in my head. after all the…
Question Barn 7
Me and Amanda Bauer Answer a question from dave!
"First of all I really enjoy the podcast! And for a while I’ve been wanting to send in this question and think it would be perfect for the new segmen…
Episode 54: The Way the Dog Ran Away
Erin McGathy (from the "This Feels Terrible" and "Harmontown" podcasts and the USB theater in LA) joins us! Dr. Rupinder Brar and Dr. Amanda Bauer have both returned after WAY TOO LONG!
We talk ab…
Question Barn 6
Dr. Katie Mack and I talk about big bang stuff.
the question is from bob:
"Hello again Ben. I've found and listened to the QB episodes. Thanks for the help with locating them.
Since you seem to ha…
Episode 53: Consistent Variables
Vicky Scowcroft and David Tsang were talkin' to me, and i was like "Yoooo what kind of show topic should we do" and Vicky was like "Cepheid Variables" so i was like... hmm. A star who tells us about …
Question Barn 5
Geoffrey Lovelace and I talk about Interstellar.
mostly we geek out over the relativity.
we ran out of time before we could make this podcast 3 hours long.
it was definitely a possibility.
Episode 52: Through The Mirror
I was super excited about this Episode! Our Guest is Patrick McHale! We Talk about CPT symmetry (Charge-Parity-Time inversion symmetry), which leads to discussions about antimatter, and the nature of…