The Titanium Physicists Podcast

The Titanium Physicists Podcast

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The Titanium Physicists Podcast episodes

  • 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!!!

    1 hr 9 min
  • 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!

    55 min
  • Episode 63: Worldbuilding

    Patrick Mchale makes his triumphant return to the show!

    Astrophysicists Catherine Neish and Brian Jackson explain how planets form around stars, and why the planets we see around other stars are so weird.

    1 hr
  • 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!

    fun times!

    1 hr 30 min
  • 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

    VORTICES enable MAGNETIC PINNING in TYPE 2 SUPERCONDUCTORS.

    rad.

    50 min
  • Episode 60: Meters Of Interference

    Radio telescopes have really crummy resolution.but if we line them up and hook them together,

    using a technique called "radio interferometry"

    we can see the head of a screw 300 km away.

    This episode, our guest is Ben Acker, one of the authors of "the thrilling adventure hour". amazing!

    Our Physicists are Rupinder Brar and Sabrina Stierwalt!

    exciting!

    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 59: Strange Truth and Charming Beauty

    There is no force stronger.

    Gravity? get out.

    Electrostatics? no.

    Love? incorrect.

    THE STRONG FORCE!

    Tia Miceli! Ken Clark! AND OUR SPECIAL GUEST RYAN NORTH!!!!

    this is a really fun episode where we talk about how protons are made of quarks stuck together with gluons. so much fun.

    51 min
  • Episode 58: Extraordinary Evidence

    The Big bang.

    How do we know it happened? How do we know what happened?Dr. Michael Zemcov and Dr. Katie Mack and I talk to the clever hosts of Encyclopedia Brunch. It's Tim Dobbs and Kathryn Cogert! WHAT FUN!

    1 hr 8 min

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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…

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