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.
http://titaniumphysics.com
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 14 hours 6 minutes
Episode 35: Crater?! I Hardly Know Her!
Hooooooohh! It's ! 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 sort of) and Lissa Ong to explain everything to us!
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
“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/...
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 mechanics! Tia Miceli, Mike Zemcov! I SUMMON YOU!...
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 Gareth L. Powell, author of Ack-Ack Macaque! this...
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 Equivalence Principle. the movie "Twins" is...
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 I sent Catherine an email. She's...
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 www.titaniumphysics.com you can read an...
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) into sweet, sweet energy. our guest is Kai...