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.

Episode 86: Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers 10/13/2020

Episode 86: Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers Dr. Sarah and Dr. Danica Marsden are here with me in Seattle, Washington for our live show at the AAAS! We talk about how quantum computers do their quantum computer thing. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/16378580

Episode 85: Decoherence Not Incoherence 02/01/2020

Episode 85: Decoherence Not Incoherence Our Guest Today is Ted Leo, of "Ted Leo and the Pharmacists" Fame. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/12973082

Episode 84: Super Stars Look Like Zebras 01/01/2020

Episode 84: Super Stars Look Like Zebras The topic of this Episode is O-type stars, the biggest, brightest stars in the universe! Astrophysicists Dr. Benjamin Brown and Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore break it all down for our guest Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics, and Squirrel Girl). /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/12582986

Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions 11/30/2019

Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions Today's guest is a marvel! It's the host of the Drabblecast: Norm Sherman! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/12224777

Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds 11/01/2019

Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds Andray Domise joins Dr. Sabine Stanley from Johns Hopkins University and Erin Wenckstern from the Weather Network to learn about NEPTUNE! Home to the fastest winds in the solar system, where it rains diamonds, and mysterious "superionic water," the ice giant slowly trudges around its orbit, the farthest planet from the sun! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/11866520

Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle 09/30/2019

Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle Humorist and Podcaster Benjamin Ahr Harrison (Greatest Generation, Friendly Fire) Join me and Dr. Joey Shapiro Key and Dr. Jocelyn Read to talk about THE NEXT GENERATION of gravitational wave detectors: LISA (the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle) and NANOGRAV our pulsar timing array system! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/11444897

Episode 80: Picturing the Bach Hole 08/21/2019

Episode 80: Picturing the Bach Hole Adal Rifai from "Hello From the Magic Tavern" joins us to talk about the first PHOTOGRAPH of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope. Our guide through this amazing story are Dr. Leo Stein and Dr. Katie Bouman. We learn the basics of Black holes, and the interferometry performed by the Event Horizon Telescope, and then about the complicated image processing which needed to be done to interpret all of that amazing, messy data! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/10940189

Episode 79: MiniBooNE or Giant Curse 03/11/2019

Episode 79: MiniBooNE or Giant Curse Particle physicists Dr Erica Caden and Dr. Ken Clark are my physicists today. Our guest today is Author, musician, composer and novelist Cecil Castellucci. Today we're talking about the MinniBooNE experiment and the possibility of Sterile Neutrinos. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/8952038

Episode 78 The Heat Death of The Universe 09/10/2018

Episode 78 The Heat Death of The Universe Dr. Katie Mack and Dr. Robert McNees team up to explain the heat death of the universe to Award Winning Author Ken Liu. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/7025269

Episode 77: Disruptive Feedback 02/19/2018

Episode 77: Disruptive Feedback A supermassive blackhole at the centre of a galaxy can cause the gas that falls into it to glow SO BRIGHT that it stops the creation of new stars. What? How? /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/6274952

Episode 76: All that Glitters 12/18/2017

Episode 76: All that Glitters NEUTRON STARS SMASH TOGETHER IN SPACE! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/6056525

Episode 75: The Undeniable Outward Push 11/13/2017

Episode 75: The Undeniable Outward Push OLD FRIENDS AND NEW VARIATIONS! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/5938714

Episode 74: Jingle Bell Sweaters 08/24/2017

Episode 74: Jingle Bell Sweaters Biophysicists Dr. Nicole Prent and Dr. Jacqueline Townsend are back. this time we're talking about Electron Spin Resonance, a technique that's like Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, but different. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/5673660

Episode 73: An Episode with Glass 07/10/2017

Episode 73: An Episode with Glass A touch of Glass! Dr. Jane Cook and Dr. Jessica Rimsza are here to talk with Bobak Ferdowsi about glass. We talk about what glass is, and how it forms, and what makes it glassy, and where to find it, and so many more things! FASCINATING! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/5524687

Episode 72: Moonquake 05/01/2017

Episode 72: Moonquake Dr. Briony Horgan and Dr. Meg Rosenburg are here to explain that the moon is actually shrinking. It's getting smaller. And we know that it is because we have been studying it. Today's guest is Eric Molinsky, host of the "Imaginary Worlds" podcast. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/5314690

Episode 71: Neutriyes or NeutriNO 03/20/2017

Episode 71: Neutriyes or NeutriNO I'm gonna give it to you straight: we make beams of neutrinos. Neutrinos are particles that barely touch anything as they pass through everything. Ken Clark and Tia Michelli are back and this episode is awesome. neutrino beams: why would we make them? how do we make them? our guest is the host of the FOO SHOW: Will Smith! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/5184240

Episode 70: Muon, science cat, muon 01/16/2017

Episode 70: Muon, science cat, muon Muons are very small fundamental particles that are much heavier than they should be. they fall apart pretty quickly, but they rain down on us. It's magical. Today's physicists are Ryan Martin, the particle physicist; and Diana Cowern, host of the "Physics Girl" youtube channel. Our Guest this time is Sarah Gailey, the author! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4993818

Episode 69: Super Hyper Fire Hose Bucket Challenge 12/12/2016

Episode 69: Super Hyper Fire Hose Bucket Challenge Today our guest is a person I've wanted to meet for years: The founder of the Skepchick website, Rebecca Watson. Our physicists are Dr. Katie Mack and Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore. TODAY'S TOPIC: Supermassive Black Holes!! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4905078

Episode 68: The Shadows of Creation 11/07/2016

Episode 68: The Shadows of Creation This episode is about the The Sunyaev–Zel'dovich Effect, where photons from the big bang are used to backlight giant galaxy clusters! My Physicists this episode are Dr. Michael Zemcov, and Dr. Danica Marsden. Our guest this time is TED LEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO! THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4809910

Episode 67: A Phonon Call 10/01/2016

Episode 67: A Phonon Call A phonon.. that's not a spelling mistake... is a quantum of vibration. it's a particle... that lives as a vibration in a crystal. and it's bananas!!! Doctors Fiona Burnell and Darren Peets have joined me to try to explain this all to Megan and Anthony Leon. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4710507

Episode 66: Life On Mars 07/20/2016

Episode 66: Life On Mars There are astrophysicists who study life on mars. specifically, the prospects of detecting life on mars. Zach Weinersmith Joins Catherine Neish and Briony Horgan and we talk about LIFE ON MARSSSSS!!! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4530164

Episode 65: New Ways of Looking 05/23/2016

Episode 65: New Ways of Looking How does a camera work? no, a digital camera, I mean. yeah... yeah.. optics. I know all about lenses. how does the plate at the back.. the one the photons hit.. how does it turn photons into electronic signals that turn into digital information? we're talking: CCDs,CMOS cameras, MKIDs, and superconducting bolometers! Dr. Danica Marsden and Dr. Suresh Sivanandam are here, and our guest today is award winning author Elizabeth Bear! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4386892

Episode 64: E and N (The edges of Einstein) 04/25/2016

Episode 64: E and N (The edges of Einstein) Maya Inamura Joins Me, Katie Mack and Leo Stein and we talk aboutTEST OF GENERAL RELATIVITY /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4318182

Episode 63: Worldbuilding 03/25/2016

Episode 63: Worldbuilding Patrick Mchale makes his triumphant return to the show! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4247438

NONEPISODE: ben's feeling 02/11/2016

NONEPISODE: ben's feeling Hi!LIGO just announced detecting.1. gravitational waves2. colliding black holes 1.3 billion years away.this is just me talking about my feelings about it. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4142048

Episode 62: Black Bells 02/01/2016

Episode 62: Black Bells Did you know that if something falls into a black hole it will "ring" like a bell, radiating gravitational waves at a very specific frequency. pretty fun! Brent Knopf and Matt Sheehy are back! Two new physicists: Leo Stein and Chiara Mingarelli! /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4117054

Episode 61: Levitating Trains 01/18/2016

Episode 61: Levitating Trains *sorry about the audio quality**one guy was in china, and my mic broke and all sorts of bad stuff happened. :(*OH MAN!!!Erika Ensign, from all the dr. who podcasts, has come on our showso that Darren Peets and Abby Shockley and I can do our best to explain how /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4085432

Episode 60: Meters Of Interference 12/16/2015

Episode 60: Meters Of Interference Radio telescopes have really crummy resolution.but if we line them up and hook them together, /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/4020576

Episode 59: Strange Truth and Charming Beauty 12/01/2015

Episode 59: Strange Truth and Charming Beauty There is no force stronger. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/3987177

Episode 58: Extraordinary Evidence 10/25/2015

Episode 58: Extraordinary Evidence The Big bang. /episode/index/show/titaniumphysics/id/3886281

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