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The Titanium Physicists Podcast

Brachiolope Media Network

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.

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  • 96 episodes
  • Updated Oct 13, 2020

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  • May 28, 2012 · 48 min

    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 on the internet. Anyway, we're talking about superfluids today. What's a superfluid? Well. It's what you get when you cool helium down really cold. It has strange properties. Watch some videos on it, if you have time... It might help. Fiona and Jocelyn are back to help me explain. well. try to explain.

  • May 13, 2012 · 48 min

    Episode 15: Music From Before Time

    Today's Show is Awesome because our guest is TED LEO! the guy from the intro-song (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 recombination (like.. 13+ billion years ago) provided that seeds for gravitational collapse. as a result, the size of these sound waves explain the size of the largest "objects" in the universe: gravitational super clusters! They also explain why there's nothing bigger. It turns out that before there was any differentiation at all, there was music. ROCK ON TED LEO! ROCK ON TIPHYTERS! (P.S. there's a couple rad conversations after the end music. that Ted Leo is a smart guy.)

  • Apr 30, 2012 · 39 min

    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, they know Everything about Quasars. So then I looked up the author of one of my favourite webcomics, Howard Tayler. This show is fantastic. Too bad we had to record the show using two tin cans and a piece of string, and an old wax cylinder sound recorder. Oh well. It's not like I have any money to spend on sound quality (I spend it all on quality of character). by the way, if anyone can spot the magical SUPERFLUOUS word I've worked into the usual script, send me an email with it as the subject line, and I'll write you back a prize. the prize is a haiku about whatever's on my mind. Also note that there are a couple extra bits after the bunny song. not much. I left a couple extra (edited) minutes in the regular part of the show, so we ran a couple min overtime. bn

  • Apr 16, 2012 · 1 hr 7 min

    Episode 13: That Which Lies Beneath The Ice

    Today we've got Andrew Johnstone from the Podcast Squared Podcast. 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 neutrino detector buried one mile deep under a glacier in antarctica. to help me along with this show, I've brought on my old friends Ken Clark and Laura Gladstone. note: This isn't an episode of the flintstones. if it were, Ken's name would be Slate Clarkrock. BIG NOTE: this show has a long series of very silly conversations following the bunny song at the end. they are very silly. please don't try riding a bicycle slowly through a crowd of toddlers when listening to the appendix bits. you will probably laugh, lose your ballance and crush a child.

  • Apr 2, 2012 · 44 min

    Episode 12: Exiled Worlds on the Outskirts

    HaHa! You all remember how Pluto got kicked to the curb. It turns out that Pluto is just one of a large family of worlds: The Dwarf planets of the Kuiper Belt! I have brought on two fantastic astronomers to aide me: Sean Moran and Laura Hainline. We explain everything you've ever wanted to know about the Dwarf Planets of the Kuiper Belt: what's a planet. what's a dwarf. How big are Kuiper's pants? We explain everything to Keith Hayward and Max Wellenstein of the Henshin Justice Unlimited Podcast and Website. Listen after the closing bunny song to hear an interesting discussion on whether there's a big giant planet the size of jupiter (planet X) out beyond pluto.

  • Mar 18, 2012 · 39 min

    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! and today we're going to talk about how dark things matter. specifically, dark matter. We've invited the clever Kai Nagata, the revolutionary canadian journalist onto the show. I felt that we'd need a journalist to figure out the nature of that which could not be seen but which clearly exists. Check out the website for this episode especially. Both Amanda and Kai have done some fantastic things which can be found on the internet, and you should not miss out. Ken is fantastic too. Once I made him a spinach sallad and I didn't wash the spinach enough so it was super sandy, but he still wolfed it down and told me that it was the greatest salad he ever ate because he is VERY POLITE. enjoy the show. and if you read this, send me an email the phrase "sky palace 7" to tiphyter@titaniumphysics.com I'll give you a prize.

  • Mar 5, 2012 · 32 min

    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 Murray. What's a neutron star, you ask? well it's like a star made of neutrons. listen to the show.

  • Feb 20, 2012 · 40 min

    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 this detail. Oh, we definitely brought our Bee game to this episode! To help keep us in line and on time, we’ve invited Zach Weinersmith from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and our sister podcast: The Weekly Weinersmith. It's lively and fun, so Sit Down in your seat, turn up the podcast, pay attention, and bee hive yourself. Note: There’s some Extra bits after the end music. Two extra bits actually. There was a third very long conversation about bees, but It didn't make the cut.

  • Feb 5, 2012 · 36 min

    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 Science Sort 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 hole left behind the size and shape of the cookie? particles are like that too. and the cookie dough is called the Dirac sea: named after Dirac, the great lover of cookies. Listen past the end credits for a bit where I try to explain the dirac sea using bees, and jocelyn sings a song about the everlovin' Hulk! HULK! HULK!

  • Jan 22, 2012 · 34 min

    Episode 7: Extra Solar Planets

    It's my old Friends Rupinder Brar and Joanna Woo! Today we get to talk to Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics 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 end music, for those of you who like to hear people talk even more about star trek. May The Force Live Long And Prosper With YOU!!!

  • Jan 9, 2012 · 34 min

    Episode 6: Gravitational Waves

    Dave and Jocelyn are back, and we talk to Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer (from the HP Lovecraft literary Podcast) about Gravitational waves. Long story short, Physicists are on the verge of being able to listen to the music of the spheres... those horrible monstrous spheres which have been devouring planets and stars for untold aeons. Who knows what we will hear?

  • Dec 23, 2011 · 38 min

    Episode 5: The Dunes of Titan

    In This Episode, charlie Barnhart, Catherine Neish and I talk to Ryan North about the similarities between Titan, Earth and Mars. This show has a bit of bonus conversation after the closing music

  • Nov 28, 2011 · 37 min

    Episode 3: Time Travel

    Dave, Jocelyn and I sit down with dr mcninja creator Christopher Hastings. We teach him about time travel.

  • Nov 9, 2011 · 33 min

    Episode 1: Big Rips

    Titanium Physicists Jocelyn Read, David Tsang and Ben Tippett try to explain Big Rips to internet comic superstar Ryan North.