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
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the question today: "Howdy,
The Higgs boson turned out to be a massive particle from what I
understand. It is also supposed to be a field throug…
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This is the Third episode of "Question Barn"
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This one has Mike Zemcov
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This is the Second episode of "Question Barn"
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This one has Ken Clark.
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This is the First episode of "Question Barn"
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This one has Jocelyn Read on it.
Episode 51: Tabled Tops
Mr. Noah Zimmerman joins us to talk about nuclear magnetic resonance. you know MRIs? "Magnetic resonance Imaging" is what it stands for, "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging" is what it actually stand…
Episode 50: The Death Of Spirals
Galaxies are cool. some are eliplical (blobby) some are swirly. there's a reason why. Our guest today is Katrina Griffiths from the verity podcast. and my experts are Sean Moran and Laura Hainline (t…
Ep 49: Parallel Philosophies with Christopher Reynaga
Christopher Reynaga is an awesome author, and he has written the best story ever which is called “I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee” . look it up, a link to a podcast reading of the story will be…
Domains of Influence with Matt Sheehy and Brent Knopf
Some famous singing clowns once sang a song about magnets. The world looks down on a singing clown's ignorance, but how many of us can actually explain how magnets work?
the question is rhetorical, …
Episode 47: The Song Of Falling Stars with Robot Hugs
Long story short: there's no such thing as a stable orbit... any two objects in orbit will emit gravitational waves.. and slowly get closer and closer together. If the two objects in question are neu…
Episode 46: Burning Twice as Bright with Alasdair Stuart
Today is a super episode! it's got so much stuff in it it's CRAYCRAY.
Alasdair Stuart, from the Pseudopod podcast joins James Silvester and Vicky Scowcroft and me.
and we talk about STARS. what's ins…
Episode 45: The ThumBprint of Creation with Ryan North
The most amazing thing has come to pass: a telescope at the south pole called BICEP2 has detected decisive evidence demonstrating that the model of how the universe grew over the first second of exis…
Episode 44: Radiation oncology
Chad Jones from the collapsed wavefunction podcast joins us today. My experts are Dr. Kiri Nichol and Dr. Ken Clark and we talk about how radiation can be used to cure cancer. Good work, everyone. We…
Episode 43: Approaching Singularity
Jocelyn Read! Katie Mack! Jesse Moynihan! A mighty ensemble to talk about the strangest thing in physics: Gravitational Singularities! Black Holes! Big Bangs! Event Horizons! ADVENTURE.
Episode 42: Quantum Twins Talk In Code
This episode we are talking about Quantum Cryptography! With the host of CANADALAND, Jesse Brown! Also announcing the completion of my ultimate quantum team: Miles Steininger and Dr. Katherine Brown!
Episode 41: The Light Which Pushes Back The Darkness
There was a time when light would not shine in the universe. There was a time when nothing was shining, and the universe was full of light-absorbing gas. But the first stars came, and pushed back th…
Episode 40: Snowlines and No Rhymes
Teachers take things from an unrefined state to a point where they are wonderous. Poets are apt at describing both of these. This episode of TiPhy aims to teach genius poet Taylor Mali about where th…
Episode 39: Pasta Stars
So. If someone comes up to you and tells you that there are planets out there made of ice and water, you'd go "yeah". and if they said "there are planets made of diamond", you'd probably shrug. what …
Episode 38: Tron
So Tia and Ken and I talk with Dave Shumka from Stop Podcasting Yourself! we talk about accelerators. how they work. what they get used for. whether aspiring supervillains sould invest in a particle …
Episode 37: Quantum Shave and a Haircut
Q-Bits!
we're talking about quantum computers today!
ha. Okay! our guest today is comicbookgirl19, and my experts are Omair Taibah and Katherine Brown.
This episode is fun, but the audio quality is …
Episode 36: Useless Spheres and Wasteful Rockets
So.
One day we will be a space-faring species.
currently, we're more of an "earth orbit" faring species.
anyway. we'll need large structures to help us get into space, and maybe to help us live in…