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 35: Crater?! I Hardly Know Her!
Hooooooohh! It's Natasha Allegri! The Creator of Bee and PuppyCat! and also Fionna and Cake! We're going to talk about Craters! CRATERS! how they form! I've recruited Charlie Barnhart (from science s…
Episode 34: Ladder To The Stars
Mookie Terracciano! James Silvester! Amanda Bauer!
Lets talk about the methods we use to figure out how far stars are away from us.
the answer is: LOTS OF CLEVERNESS.
Episode 33: His Dark Materials
Episode 32: Sailors take warning
Reuben: "Hey dad, why is the sky blue?"
Steve: "Sky Marlins. probably."
Reuben: "You're not sure?"
Steve: "umm. lets ask the Titanium Physicists."
So When Steve asked if we could teach his 10 year ol…
Episode 31: Pushing Mirrors
Lets Talk about the Casimir Effect! The difference between the vacuum between two mirror and the vacuum beyond them sucks the mirrors together! Vacuum Energy! Negative Mass! Warp Drives! Quantum mech…
Episode 30: Subtle Pursuits
Particle Detectors! Tia Miceli! Ken Clark! I summon you! Explain geiger counters, scintilators, cloud chambers, bubble chambers, photomultipliers, CCD's, and CERN's mighty ATLAS detector to our guest…
Episode 29: Dark Equivalence
Alasdair Stuart joins Jocelyn and Dave on this episode. We talk about black holes and time: specifically how black holes affect time.Everything we say will make sense, because we will introduce the E…
Episode 28: Smoke Like Swirls on the Moon
"Conceiving my heart as gutter broke,
my sweet love grants me a boon,
and joy rose up, grey billowing smoke,
smoke like swirls on the moon"
-no quality poem ever.
So back when i started the show…
Episode 27: Death and Heat Death
Yaaaay! Today we're talking about Entropy. It's an oft cited but also oft misunderstood law of nature.
Our Guest is Cory Doctorow, Author, Blogger, King of the Blogosphere!
(If you go to the website…
Episode 26: Black Gold
Pssst. Want some free energy?
who doesn't want an unlimited supply of energy? no one, that's who!
today we're talking about how to use a black hole to turn everyday objects (like garbage and ducks)…
Episode 25: The No Bear Theorem
This week's guest is Anne Casselman! and Dave and Jocelyn are back. and we're talking about what happens if you fall into a black hole. mostly, we make bear spaghetti. Things are very sad. Listen pas…
Episode 24: Higgs In A Blanket
Zounds! What Fun!
So when I started the show, everyone was like "HEY BEN! DO A SHOW ON THE HIGGS"
and i was like "No, it's boring and hard to explain and they aren't even going to find it anyway."
th…
Episode 23: Quantum Tunneling
well. here is a very stupid riddle: How does a very small mole?
if you answer it, send me an email and i'll send you a prize.
lets talk shop.
1) todays show is about quantum tunneling. it features he…
Episode 22: Falling Down the Stepped Leader
Hi everyone!
We're back, after a short vacation, with a show for the summertime!
THUNDER! banana-nananana THUNDER! banana-nananana! THUNDER!
today's guest is Elizabeth Bear, award winning author!
a…
Episode 21: Things Fall Apart
Today the topic is Particle decay. it's the first of a larger set of episodes leading up to an explanation of the discovery of the Higgs.
but more interestingly. particles decay.
My guest is Dan J…
Episode 20: Time Dilates When You're Having Fun
Oh gosh,
we got carried away on the discussions in this one.
the raw recording was about 100 minutes long,
and even after some heavy editing, i couldn't get the "regular show" part under 40 minutes *…
Episode 19: The Northern Lights
Hello everybody.
What causes the northern lights?
as far as I understand it... northern lights are what happens when polar bears drink cocacola.
but... maybe I'm just being silly.
Today's guest i…
Episode 18: That Superconductor Episode
Fiona Burnell! Darren Peets! Ryan North!
it's a Festival of wonderful.
listen, i'm going to admit it here. I didn't know much about how superconductors work when i chose this topic.
I don't know why …
SBS! The Weekly Weinersmith Ep. 2
Hi tiphyters!
there was a problem this week and we had to postpone recording. boooo I know.
but don't feel bad. the next episode will have ryan north and fiona return. we'll talk about superconducto…
Episode 17: See Spot Sun!
Hellooo. today we're going to talk about how the solar dynamo causes sunspots to form.
and we're doing it with David Malki!
this episode is pretty rad.
listen past the end music to hear a lot of …