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 16: Drinking Superfluid from the Fire Hose of Knowledge
Oh My gosh! It's Kelly Link! The awardwinning Author of my favourite short story "Magic for Beginners"!!! You can download some of her stories for free, and even listen to them on the internet.
Anyw…
Episode 15: Music From Before Time
Today's Show is Awesome because our guest is TED LEO! the guy from the intro-song (Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead)! I bring together Vicky Scowcroft and Mike Zemcov and we talk about how GIANT SOUND …
Episode 14: How Do You Spell Quasar?
Hey everyone!
I decided to do a show on Quasars. because I didn't know what they were. So then I looked It up. Turns out, they're black holes! My Favourite.
I also looked up two of my other favourit…
Episode 13: That Which Lies Beneath The Ice
Today we've got Andrew Johnstone from the Podcast Squared Podcast. I wanted to do him ONE BETTER, and In a cool way, so today we're going to talk about Ice Cube (not the rapper).
ICE CUBE is humanki…
Episode 12: Exiled Worlds on the Outskirts
HaHa!
You all remember how Pluto got kicked to the curb.
It turns out that Pluto is just one of a large family of worlds: The Dwarf planets of the Kuiper Belt!
I have brought on two fantastic astro…
Episode 11: Of Matters Dark...
Hello everyone. Allow me to introduce my old friend Ken Clark, and my new friend Amanda Bauer. He works on Ice Cube and she works in australia. But he's not a bar tender, and she is not a kangarooist…
Episode 10: Neutron Stars
OH HOH HOH! we're on episode 10. double digits! A NEW ORDER OF MAGNITUDE.
To celebrate, I've invited my old standards Jocelyn Read and David Tsang up from the basement I keep them in to help me expl…
Episode 9: Warp Drive
In episode 9, Its back to the A team (which stands for Apple, which points to "g", cuz their words have weight!) with Jocelyn Read and Dave Tsang! Today We're talking about the Alcubierre Warp Drive.…
Episode 8: The Sea of Dirac
Jocelyn is back, and this time it's with our good pal Fiona Burnell! Today we get to talk to Ryan Haupt of Science Sort Of fame. The Topic of today's show is The Dirac Sea! You know how when you coo…
Episode 7: Extra Solar Planets
It's my old Friends Rupinder Brar and Joanna Woo! Today we get to talk to Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics fame. We try to explain how planets around other stars get detected. Also Star Trek gets menti…
Episode 6: Gravitational Waves
Dave and Jocelyn are back, and we talk to Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer (from the HP Lovecraft literary Podcast) about Gravitational waves. Long story short, Physicists are on the verge of being able t…
Episode 5: The Dunes of Titan
In This Episode, charlie Barnhart, Catherine Neish and I talk to Ryan North about the similarities between Titan, Earth and Mars. This show has a bit of bonus conversation after the closing music
Episode 4: The Solar Neutrino Problem
The Titanium Physicists explain the Solar Neutrino Problem To Artist and Apiarist Amy Pollien.
Episode 3: Time Travel
Dave, Jocelyn and I sit down with dr mcninja creator Christopher Hastings. We teach him about time travel.
Episode 2: Black Hole Detection
We explain black hole detection to Kelly Weinersmith.
Episode 1: Big Rips
Titanium Physicists Jocelyn Read, David Tsang and Ben Tippett try to explain Big Rips to internet comic superstar Ryan North.