The Titanium Physicists Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 86: Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sarah and Dr. Danica Marsden are here with me in Seattle, Washington for our live show at the AAAS! We talk about how quantum computers do their q...
Episode 85: Decoherence Not Incoherence
01 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our Guest Today is Ted Leo, of "Ted Leo and the Pharmacists" Fame. Our experts today are Dr. Danica Marsden and Dr. Stephanie Simmons. Our topic is...
Episode 84: Super Stars Look Like Zebras
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The topic of this Episode is O-type stars, the biggest, brightest stars in the universe! Astrophysicists Dr. Benjamin Brown and Hannalore Gerling-Duns...
Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions
30 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is a marvel! It's the host of the Drabblecast: Norm Sherman! Norm joins Dr. Ken Clark and Dr. Katelin Schutz, experts in dark matters. ...
Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andray Domise joins Dr. Sabine Stanley from Johns Hopkins University and Erin Wenckstern from the Weather Network to learn about NEPTUNE! Hom...
Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Humorist and Podcaster Benjamin Ahr Harrison (Greatest Generation, Friendly Fire) Join me and Dr. Joey Shapiro Key and Dr. Jocelyn Read to talk about ...
Episode 80: Picturing the Bach Hole
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adal Rifai from "Hello From the Magic Tavern" joins us to talk about the first PHOTOGRAPH of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope. Our guide...
Episode 79: MiniBooNE or Giant Curse
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Particle physicists Dr Erica Caden and Dr. Ken Clark are my physicists today. Our guest today is Author, musician, composer and novelist Cecil Cast...
Episode 78 The Heat Death of The Universe
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Katie Mack and Dr. Robert McNees team up to explain the heat death of the universe to Award Winning Author Ken Liu.
Episode 77: Disruptive Feedback
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A supermassive blackhole at the centre of a galaxy can cause the gas that falls into it to glow SO BRIGHT that it stops the creation of new stars. Wha...
Episode 76: All that Glitters
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Announcing the return of the A Team! Jocelyn Read! David Tsang! joining us today the comedian Charlie Demers! Episode 76! This episode is gold. speci...
Episode 75: The Undeniable Outward Push
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Like how the same basic stuff can make many different types of star, and planet and cookie, this episode brings a lot of familiar things together in n...
Episode 74: Jingle Bell Sweaters
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Biophysicists Dr. Nicole Prent and Dr. Jacqueline Townsend are back. this time we're talking about Electron Spin Resonance, a technique that's like Nu...
Episode 73: An Episode with Glass
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A touch of Glass! Dr. Jane Cook and Dr. Jessica Rimsza are here to talk with Bobak Ferdowsi about glass. We talk about what glass is, and how it forms...
Episode 72: Moonquake
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Briony Horgan and Dr. Meg Rosenburg are here to explain that the moon is actually shrinking. It's getting smaller. And we know that it is because ...
Episode 71: Neutriyes or NeutriNO
20 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I'm gonna give it to you straight: we make beams of neutrinos. Neutrinos are particles that barely touch anything as they pass through everything. ...
Episode 70: Muon, science cat, muon
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Muons are very small fundamental particles that are much heavier than they should be. they fall apart pretty quickly, but they rain down on us. It'...
Episode 69: Super Hyper Fire Hose Bucket Challenge
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today our guest is a person I've wanted to meet for years: The founder of the Skepchick website, Rebecca Watson. Our physicists are Dr. Katie Mack an...
Episode 68: The Shadows of Creation
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the The Sunyaev–Zel'dovich Effect, where photons from the big bang are used to backlight giant galaxy clusters! My Physicists...
Episode 67: A Phonon Call
01 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A phonon.. that's not a spelling mistake... is a quantum of vibration. it's a particle... that lives as a vibration in a crystal. and it's bananas!!...
Episode 66: Life On Mars
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There are astrophysicists who study life on mars. specifically, the prospects of detecting life on mars. Zach Weinersmith Joins Catherine Neish ...
Episode 65: New Ways of Looking
23 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 64: E and N (The edges of Einstein)
25 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Maya Inamura Joins Me, Katie Mack and Leo Stein and we talk aboutTEST OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
Episode 63: Worldbuilding
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Mchale makes his triumphant return to the show! Astrophysicists Catherine Neish and Brian Jackson explain how planets form around stars, and ...
NONEPISODE: ben's feeling
11 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Hi!LIGO just announced detecting.1. gravitational waves2. colliding black holes 1.3 billion years away.this is just me talking about my feelings about...
Episode 62: Black Bells
01 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 61: Levitating Trains
18 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
*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....
Episode 60: Meters Of Interference
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Radio telescopes have really crummy resolution.but if we line them up and hook them together, using a technique called "radio interferometry" we...
Episode 59: Strange Truth and Charming Beauty
01 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There is no force stronger. Gravity? get out. Electrostatics? no. Love? incorrect. THE STRONG FORCE! Tia Miceli! Ken Clark! AND OUR SPECIAL GUE...
Episode 58: Extraordinary Evidence
25 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 Encycl...
Episode 57: Two Photons Walk Into An H Bar
18 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
BIOPHYSICS! Nicole Prent! Jacqueline Townsend! Broadway actor Brian Cross joins us to talk about how biophysicists use frequency doubling of photons ...
Episode 56: What "In Tangles" Meant
07 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Oh boy it's been a while since we got an episode scheduled, recorded, edited and out the door. but the wait has been worth it because THIS EPISDE IS A...
Question Barn 8
18 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Clark Joins me! we answer Ramiro's question, who asked "I have heard that bosons are the force carriers. So what force is the higgs boson "carry...
Episode 55: Laser Laser Laser Laser Laser Laser
01 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Appologies. the audio turned out way crunchier than i thought it would be while we recorded. I tried to fix it. My "Doctor Evil" impression is w...
Question Barn 7
23 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Me and Amanda Bauer Answer a question from dave! "First of all I really enjoy the podcast! And for a while I’ve been wanting to send in this ques...
Episode 54: The Way the Dog Ran Away
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Erin McGathy (from the "This Feels Terrible" and "Harmontown" podcasts and the USB theater in LA) joins us! Dr. Rupinder Brar and Dr. Amanda Bauer h...
Question Barn 6
01 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Katie Mack and I talk about big bang stuff. the question is from bob: "Hello again Ben. I've found and listened to the QB episodes. Thanks...
Episode 53: Consistent Variables
11 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Vicky Scowcroft and David Tsang were talkin' to me, and i was like "Yoooo what kind of show topic should we do" and Vicky was like "Cepheid Variables"...
Question Barn 5
26 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Geoffrey Lovelace and I talk about Interstellar. mostly we geek out over the relativity. we ran out of time before we could make this podcast 3 ho...
Episode 52: Through The Mirror
20 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I was super excited about this Episode! Our Guest is Patrick McHale! We Talk about CPT symmetry (Charge-Parity-Time inversion symmetry), which leads...
Question Barn 4
09 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
email your questions to [email protected] the question today: "Howdy, The Higgs boson turned out to be a massive particle from what I ...
Question Barn 3
17 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Third episode of "Question Barn" send your questions to [email protected] This one has Mike Zemcov
Question Barn 2
14 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Second episode of "Question Barn" send your questions to [email protected] This one has Ken Clark.
Question Barn 1
12 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This is the First episode of "Question Barn" send your questions to [email protected] This one has Jocelyn Read on it.
Episode 51: Tabled Tops
22 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mr. Noah Zimmerman joins us to talk about nuclear magnetic resonance. you know MRIs? "Magnetic resonance Imaging" is what it stands for, "Nuclear Magn...
Episode 50: The Death Of Spirals
01 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Galaxies are cool. some are eliplical (blobby) some are swirly. there's a reason why. Our guest today is Katrina Griffiths from the verity podcast. an...
Ep 49: Parallel Philosophies with Christopher Reynaga
01 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher 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...
Domains of Influence with Matt Sheehy and Brent Knopf
01 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Some 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 explai...
Episode 47: The Song Of Falling Stars with Robot Hugs
18 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Long 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...
Episode 46: Burning Twice as Bright with Alasdair Stuart
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Today 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 Sco...
Episode 45: The ThumBprint of Creation with Ryan North
28 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The most amazing thing has come to pass: a telescope at the south pole called BICEP2 has detected decisive evidence demonstrating that the model of ho...
Episode 44: Radiation oncology
12 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Chad 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 ca...
Episode 43: Approaching Singularity
17 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jocelyn Read! Katie Mack! Jesse Moynihan! A mighty ensemble to talk about the strangest thing in physics: Gravitational Singularities! Black Holes! Bi...
Episode 42: Quantum Twins Talk In Code
01 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we are talking about Quantum Cryptography! With the host of CANADALAND, Jesse Brown! Also announcing the completion of my ultimate quantu...
Episode 41: The Light Which Pushes Back The Darkness
01 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
There 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...
Episode 40: Snowlines and No Rhymes
22 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Teachers 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 aim...
Episode 39: Pasta Stars
07 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
So. 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 plan...
Episode 38: Tron
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
So 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 a...
Episode 37: Quantum Shave and a Haircut
17 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Q-Bits! we're talking about quantum computers today! ha. Okay! our guest today is comicbookgirl19, and my experts are Omair Taibah and Katherine Bro...
Episode 36: Useless Spheres and Wasteful Rockets
01 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
So. 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 h...
Episode 35: Crater?! I Hardly Know Her!
22 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 34: Ladder To The Stars
24 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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: ...
Episode 33: His Dark Materials
09 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
“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 c...
Episode 32: Sailors take warning
08 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 31: Pushing Mirrors
08 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lets Talk about the Casimir Effect! The difference between the vacuum between two mirror and the vacuum beyond them sucks the mirrors together! Vacuum...
Episode 30: Subtle Pursuits
10 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Particle Detectors! Tia Miceli! Ken Clark! I summon you! Explain geiger counters, scintilators, cloud chambers, bubble chambers, photomultipliers, CCD...
Episode 29: Dark Equivalence
12 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 28: Smoke Like Swirls on the Moon
21 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Episode 27: Death and Heat Death
31 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 26: Black Gold
10 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 25: The No Bear Theorem
12 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 mak...
Episode 24: Higgs In A Blanket
14 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 23: Quantum Tunneling
01 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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) today...
Episode 22: Falling Down the Stepped Leader
17 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Hi everyone! We're back, after a short vacation, with a show for the summertime! THUNDER! banana-nananana THUNDER! banana-nananana! THUNDER! today'...
Episode 21: Things Fall Apart
20 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 20: Time Dilates When You're Having Fun
29 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 19: The Northern Lights
14 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Hello everybody. What causes the northern lights? as far as I understand it... northern lights are what happens when polar bears drink cocacola. ...
Episode 18: That Superconductor Episode
02 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 superconductor...
SBS! The Weekly Weinersmith Ep. 2
25 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 nort...
Episode 17: See Spot Sun!
09 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 pre...
Episode 16: Drinking Superfluid from the Fire Hose of Knowledge
28 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 fre...
Episode 15: Music From Before Time
13 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 14: How Do You Spell Quasar?
30 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fa...
Episode 13: That Which Lies Beneath The Ice
16 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 abou...
Episode 12: Exiled Worlds on the Outskirts
02 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 11: Of Matters Dark...
18 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 10: Neutron Stars
05 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 u...
Episode 9: Warp Drive
20 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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! Tod...
Episode 8: The Sea of Dirac
05 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 7: Extra Solar Planets
22 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 ot...
Episode 6: Gravitational Waves
09 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Episode 5: The Dunes of Titan
23 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 4: The Solar Neutrino Problem
11 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The Titanium Physicists explain the Solar Neutrino Problem To Artist and Apiarist Amy Pollien.
Episode 3: Time Travel
28 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dave, Jocelyn and I sit down with dr mcninja creator Christopher Hastings. We teach him about time travel.
Episode 2: Black Hole Detection
13 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
We explain black hole detection to Kelly Weinersmith.
Episode 1: Big Rips
09 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Titanium Physicists Jocelyn Read, David Tsang and Ben Tippett try to explain Big Rips to internet comic superstar Ryan North.