Physics Frontiers

By Jim Rantschler

Jim Rantschler and Randy Morrison discuss physics from elementary particles to cosmological effects at the limits of our theoretical knowledge or have recently emerged.

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How many episodes does Physics Frontiers have?

The podcast currently has 80 episodes available.

Physics Frontiers episodes:

October 31, 2021 Episode 61: Dark Stars
Jim and Randy talk about alternatives to black holes without event horizons or singularities.

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/61
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43min
September 12, 2021 Episode 60: Warp Bubbles
Randy tells Jim about developments of metrics describing isolated spacetime bubbles that could, possibly, move faster than light.

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/60
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44min
July 05, 2021 Episode 59: The Hubble Crisis
Randy and Jim discuss the current tension between measurements of the Hubble constant by different methods, and some attempts to resolve the issue.

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/59
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49min
June 06, 2021 Episode 58: Phantom Matter
Jim and Randy talk about the Higgs portal to dark matter and the nightmare scenario for particle physicists: what if the LHC never saw any traces of supersymmetric particles?

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/58
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39min
May 02, 2021 Episode 57: Quantum Effects in Gravitational Waves
Randy and Jim talk about two proposals to use gravitational wave interferometry to show that gravitons exist through noise measurements.

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/57
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27min
April 01, 2021 Episode 56: Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
Jim and Randy discuss the measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and some of the ways in which the discrepancy between theory and experiment could manifest themselves in new physics.

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/56
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45min
December 07, 2020 Episode 55: Multiversality
Jim and Randy discuss the rationales for multiverses based on quantum mechanics, string theory, and the anthropic principle.

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/55
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38min
October 18, 2020 Episode 54: The ANITA Experiment
Randy and Jim talk about the strange results of the ANITA experiment: tau neutrinos that seem to come up out of the Earth.

Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/54
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46min
August 17, 2020 Electromagnetic Gravitational Repulsion
Randy tells Jim about ways in which electromagnetism reduces the gravitational attraction caused by a body.
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42min
July 08, 2020 Sterile Neutrinos
Jim and Randy discuss the hypothesis of sterile neutrinos, neutrinos that are even more ghostly than neutrinos that are dark matter candidates.
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38min

FAQs about Physics Frontiers:

How many episodes does Physics Frontiers have?

The podcast currently has 80 episodes available.

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