The Titanium Physicists Podcast

Hooooooohh! It's Natasha Allegri! 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!

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.

“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/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. ” I went to meet Ben Caplan, notable indie rock musician, and I asked him what he wanted to learn about. He told me "Dark Energy", so I laid my plans. This EPISODE: the return of Rupinder Brar! The return of Vicky Scowcroft! Ben Caplan! Dark Energy! ALLEZ! 

Reuben: "Hey dad, why is the sky blue?" Steve: "Sky Marlins. probably." Reuben: "You're not sure?" Steve: "umm. lets ask the Titanium Physicists." So When Steve asked if we could teach his 10 year old kid physics we were like "YESS!" because it's like we are training our own encyclopedia brown. So. If you have a mystery that needs solving, go ask Reuben. So this episode we have Amanda Bauer and Ken Clark. *note: I'm sorry Ken fans. Ken gets dropped from the call, and we couldn't get him back. T_T sorry everyone.* okayy! Lets talk about why the sky is blue!

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! explain quantum field theory to Megan Harns!

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 is a little long, but it's a lot great. 

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 referred to about 1,000,000 times this episode. BE WARNED.  this episode is rated explicit because sometimes I don't want to cut the mildly dirty jokes, okay?!

"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 always been one of my most gifted astronomy friends. I said "hey, give me a topic for the show." I expected her to say like "variable stars that wobble because of acoustic waves" or something. she said "lunar swirls". i said "I'll get back to you".  Anyway. she persisted.  i gave in. and we put together a show about SWIRLS ON THE MOON.  apparently there are swirls on the moon. and they're AWESOME. So my experts today are Catherine Neish and Sebastien Besse. and we explain everything to Jordan Harbinger, who hosts the Pickup Podcast. Life is fun.  

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 additional explanation which... I forgot to mention while we were recording the show, even though it IS REALLY actually very neat) It's Jocely and Miles. My old friends.  Have FUN!

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 Nagata, and the physicists are Laura Hainline and Mike Zemcov. three things to note: 1) listen past the end credits to hear a long-ass conversation about whether having free energy is a good thing.  2) Kai's internet connection was lousy and kept dropping out. so today's episode is less conversational than we are used to. we had to fix it in editing. 3) speaking of editing, the bulk of this episode's edits were done by a gentleman named John Heath. John made our horrible skype recording sound so good. If you meet John on the street, please give him all the money in your pockets. you know, from me. 

This week's guest is Anne Casselman! and Dave and Jocelyn are back. and we're talking about what happens if you fall into a black hole. mostly, we make bear spaghetti. Things are very sad. Listen past the end song to hear a fun discussion of the no hair theorem, and Hawking radiation. WHAT FUN!

Zounds! What Fun! So when I started the show, everyone was like "HEY BEN! DO A SHOW ON THE HIGGS" and i was like "No, it's boring and hard to explain and they aren't even going to find it anyway." then they found it and everyone was like "Hey Ben! Do a show on the higgs!" and i was like "ugh, I need to do at least four episodes. One on particle decay, one on particel detectors, one on the higgs field, and then maybe a detailed on on how they found it. but that's hard..." anyway. So. here's a show on the Higgs field. It's how everything gets mass. kind of. we're in tip of the iceberg territory here. OKAY! SO! Today's physicists are Tia Miceli, and Matt Buckley. and our guest today is Greg Proops, The smartest man in the world.  Enjoy. 

well. here is a very stupid riddle: How does a very small mole? if you answer it, send me an email and i'll send you a prize. lets talk shop. 1) todays show is about quantum tunneling. it features henry Reich blowing us all out of the water with his high caliber explanations. It also features Justin Pierce of Wonderella fame. you should watch one minute physics videos and read wonderella. skip work today. 2.0) sorry about the sound quality, i'm still fighting a new internet connection. I'm doing my best, and i have honestly spent about 12 hours edting this.  2.1) at the end of the show is a lot of content that I threw into the appendices. enjoy.  2) Apple has a new podcast app. go see if you can find us on it? if you can't write us a review or something. I'm still trying to wrangle it currently. I hate it when things change. 3) maybe nominations for this year's podcasting awards are going to open up? maybe we should be nominated for the science category? maybe we don't stand a chance against those skeptics po

Hi everyone!  We're back, after a short vacation, with a show for the summertime! THUNDER! banana-nananana THUNDER! banana-nananana! THUNDER! today's guest is Elizabeth Bear, award winning author! and our experts are Amanda Bauer and Zach Weinersmith! lots of fun for everyone. SHAZAM!

Today the topic is Particle decay. it's the first of a larger set of episodes leading up to an explanation of the discovery of the Higgs.  but more interestingly. particles decay.  My guest is Dan Jankwoski, and my physicists are Ken Clark and Tia Miceli!  ALLEZ! PHYSIQUE!

Oh gosh, we got carried away on the discussions in this one. the raw recording was about 100 minutes long, and even after some heavy editing, i couldn't get the "regular show" part under 40 minutes *shame*. perhaps... your clock is just running faster than mine? well... it's summer. anyway! This episode's guest is Michael Mookie Terracciano, author of the webcomic "Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire" and we're taking the special event of our 20th episode to talk about SPECIAL RELATIVITY. 

Hello everybody.  What causes the northern lights?  as far as I understand it... northern lights are what happens when polar bears drink cocacola.  but... maybe I'm just being silly. Today's guest is Nathan Lowell! Go listen to some of his books on your next car trip. when you arrive, you'll feel pretty good about everything. maybe you'll even want to go back to school. learning is cool.  man, these things sure sound a lot different in the final cut than they do in their initial raw audiofile. for one thing, we don't all talk like genius auctioneers.  maybe you should try listening to this with the *1/2 speed* turned on on your ipod. @_@

Fiona Burnell! Darren Peets! Ryan North! it's a Festival of wonderful. listen, i'm going to admit it here. I didn't know much about how superconductors work when i chose this topic. I don't know why i never learned how it worked, but I never did. whoops.  anyway, the answer is crazy. it has to do with electrons getting married and having to get their credit card spending under control.  I don't know if that Gail Lady visited them or what. 

Hi tiphyters! there was a problem this week and we had to postpone recording. boooo I know.  but don't feel bad. the next episode will have ryan north and fiona return. we'll talk about superconductors. anyway, I thought I'd try one of the fun features of the brachiolope media network: The Substitute Brachiolope System. so the deal is that when one of our shows can't make it (for whatever reason) we can reroute content from one of our sister podcasts.  That way you get lots of science, and we feel slightly less guilty. So. I'm putting in an episode of The Weekly Weinersmith. this one is lots of fun!

Hellooo. today we're going to talk about how the solar dynamo causes sunspots to form.  and we're doing it with David Malki!   this episode is pretty rad. listen past the end music to hear a lot of silly conversations. there are a lot of them. :( why does my show have to be half an hour of ramming physics down your gullet? why cant i leave the funny and distracting stuff in context? If you know the answer to these questions, email me, and I'll give you a prize.