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 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 . Anyway, we're talking about superfluids today. What's a...
Episode 15: Music From Before Time
Today's Show is Awesome because our guest is ! the guy from the (Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead)! I bring together Vicky Scowcroft and Mike Zemcov and we talk about how GIANT SOUND WAVES which rang through the universe at a time before...
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 favourites, Laura Hainline and Sean Moran. Turns out,...
Episode 13: That Which Lies Beneath The Ice
Today we've got Andrew Johnstone from the. 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 humankind's largest constructed structure. It's a one-kilometer squared cube...
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. rather, they are my NEWEST TITANIUM PHYSICISTS!...
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 explain Neutron Stars to my dear wife Bethany...
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. You've probably heard of this before, but not in...
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 fame. The Topic of today's show is The Dirac Sea! You know how when you cookie-cutter out a cookie from some rolled out dough, there's a...
Episode 7: Extra Solar Planets
It's my old Friends Rupinder Brar and Joanna Woo! Today we get to talk to Ryan North of fame. We try to explain how planets around other stars get detected. Also Star Trek gets mentioned. There's some edited-out conversation after the...