Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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Question Barn 4
09/12/2014 Duration: 26minemail your questions to tiphyter@titaniumphysics.com the question today: "Howdy, The Higgs boson turned out to be a massive particle from what I understand. It is also supposed to be a field through which everything moves. So, there must be a lot of them, I reason. So, could this be the missing mass of the universe? Maybe there is some obvious reason that it is not, but I have not heard the idea mentioned and it seems obvious to me."
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Question Barn 3
17/11/2014 Duration: 25minThis is the Third episode of "Question Barn" send your questions to TIPHYTER@TITANIUMPHYSICS.COM This one has Mike Zemcov
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Question Barn 2
14/11/2014 Duration: 16minThis is the Second episode of "Question Barn" send your questions to TIPHYTER@TITANIUMPHYSICS.COM This one has Ken Clark.
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Question Barn 1
12/11/2014 Duration: 19minThis is the First episode of "Question Barn" send your questions to TIPHYTER@TITANIUMPHYSICS.COM This one has Jocelyn Read on it.
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Episode 51: Tabled Tops
22/10/2014 Duration: 49minMr. Noah Zimmerman joins us to talk about nuclear magnetic resonance. you know MRIs? "Magnetic resonance Imaging" is what it stands for, "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging" is what it actually stands for. Essentially, magnets are used to make the nuclei in your atoms stand up and dance. Our experts are the Mighty Dr. Fiona Burnell, and the Mighty Dr. Abby Shockley. THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!
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Episode 50: The Death Of Spirals
01/09/2014 Duration: 48minGalaxies are cool. some are eliplical (blobby) some are swirly. there's a reason why. Our guest today is Katrina Griffiths from the verity podcast. and my experts are Sean Moran and Laura Hainline (they're married. that's why they keep interrupting each other. it's kinda sweet, i think) wooo! 50 episodes!
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Ep 49: Parallel Philosophies with Christopher Reynaga
01/08/2014 Duration: 52minChristopher Reynaga is an awesome author, and he has written the best story ever which is called “I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee” . look it up, a link to a podcast reading of the story will be on teh website. Anyway, I wanted to talk to him so I told him that I'd explain many worlds Quantum mechanics to him. well, that and copenhagen interpretation, why not. So this week's episode is where the math side of physics meets the philosophy side of physics! Experts are Ken Clark and Tia Miceli .
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Domains of Influence with Matt Sheehy and Brent Knopf
01/07/2014 Duration: 01h11minSome famous singing clowns once sang a song about magnets. The world looks down on a singing clown's ignorance, but how many of us can actually explain how magnets work? the question is rhetorical, though, because the answer is obviously "yes I can do it because i am a physicist and i have clever physicist friends who also know a lot about it." i recruited my old pals Brian Sullivan and Fiona Burnell! Our guests today are Matt Sheehy from the band 'Lost Lander' and Brent Knopf from the band 'Ramona Falls'. the show is super extra long and we talk about everythinggg! from how magnetic fields are generated, to how magnets work, to how to levitate a frog, to how the sun and earth's magnetic fields work, to how guitar pickups work. it's a good episode. you should note that a lot of the topics we mention (solar flares, superconductors) have their OWN EPSIODES all about them.
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Episode 47: The Song Of Falling Stars with Robot Hugs
18/06/2014 Duration: 48minLong story short: there's no such thing as a stable orbit... any two objects in orbit will emit gravitational waves.. and slowly get closer and closer together. If the two objects in question are neutron stars, we can even detect the gravitational waves! We hope to "hear" them soon with the LIGO gravitational Wave Observatory! Today's guest it Robot Hugs, the author of the Robot Hugs comic. The Physicists are Jocelyn Read and David Tsang! WHAT FUN!
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Episode 46: Burning Twice as Bright with Alasdair Stuart
11/05/2014 Duration: 50minToday is a super episode! it's got so much stuff in it it's CRAYCRAY. Alasdair Stuart, from the Pseudopod podcast joins James Silvester and Vicky Scowcroft and me. and we talk about STARS. what's inside them and how they work and how they change.
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Episode 45: The ThumBprint of Creation with Ryan North
28/03/2014 Duration: 48minThe most amazing thing has come to pass: a telescope at the south pole called BICEP2 has detected decisive evidence demonstrating that the model of how the universe grew over the first second of existence is correct. It detected evidence of gravitational waves which were generated during inflation! I've put the best team together. Katie Mack! Mike Zemcov... and returning to the show, RYAN NORTH. it's a the best episode we have made.
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Episode 44: Radiation oncology
12/03/2014 Duration: 33minChad Jones from the collapsed wavefunction podcast joins us today. My experts are Dr. Kiri Nichol and Dr. Ken Clark and we talk about how radiation can be used to cure cancer. Good work, everyone. We talk about Neutron Therapy, Radio Therapy, Brachytherapy.
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Episode 43: Approaching Singularity
17/02/2014 Duration: 01h05minJocelyn Read! Katie Mack! Jesse Moynihan! A mighty ensemble to talk about the strangest thing in physics: Gravitational Singularities! Black Holes! Big Bangs! Event Horizons! ADVENTURE.
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Episode 42: Quantum Twins Talk In Code
01/02/2014 Duration: 47minThis episode we are talking about Quantum Cryptography! With the host of CANADALAND, Jesse Brown! Also announcing the completion of my ultimate quantum team: Miles Steininger and Dr. Katherine Brown!
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Episode 41: The Light Which Pushes Back The Darkness
01/01/2014 Duration: 01h07minThere was a time when light would not shine in the universe. There was a time when nothing was shining, and the universe was full of light-absorbing gas. But the first stars came, and pushed back the darkness and made the heavens clear. This is the story of the dark age of the universe. Physicists Vicky Scowcroft and Mike Zemcov explain everything to THE TOLKEIN PROFESSOR Corey Olsen.
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Episode 40: Snowlines and No Rhymes
22/12/2013 Duration: 51minTeachers take things from an unrefined state to a point where they are wonderous. Poets are apt at describing both of these. This episode of TiPhy aims to teach genius poet Taylor Mali about where the planets in our solar system came from. Taylor's time with us was a little short, and our conversation broached many topics. listen after the end music to hear some crazy conversations. My physicists are Catherine and Dave!
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Episode 39: Pasta Stars
07/12/2013 Duration: 37minSo. If someone comes up to you and tells you that there are planets out there made of ice and water, you'd go "yeah". and if they said "there are planets made of diamond", you'd probably shrug. what if I told you there were stars made of pasta? well there aren't. theyr'e made of protons and neutrons and electrons that are shaped like pasta! PASTA PHASES OF MATTER IN NEUTRON STARS!!!! My guest is my old pal sean martin. My experts are Jocelyn Read and Andrew Steiner. FUN!
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Episode 38: Tron
30/10/2013 Duration: 53minSo Tia and Ken and I talk with Dave Shumka from Stop Podcasting Yourself! we talk about accelerators. how they work. what they get used for. whether aspiring supervillains sould invest in a particle accelerator or a giant laser. How Congress is in the pocket of big chud. (we have too much fun). um. listen past the end song to hear more conversation.
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Episode 37: Quantum Shave and a Haircut
17/10/2013 Duration: 56minQ-Bits! we're talking about quantum computers today! ha. Okay! our guest today is comicbookgirl19, and my experts are Omair Taibah and Katherine Brown. This episode is fun, but the audio quality is BAAD. After weeks of obsessive work, I had to make poor john give up on trying to fix this thing. sorry.
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Episode 36: Useless Spheres and Wasteful Rockets
01/09/2013 Duration: 42minSo. One day we will be a space-faring species. currently, we're more of an "earth orbit" faring species. anyway. we'll need large structures to help us get into space, and maybe to help us live in space. MEGASTRUCTURES IN SPACE. Mur Lafferty joins Jocelyn Read and Jacob Stump and myself. WHAT FUN.