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.
96 Available Episodes (96 Total)Average duration: 00:53:49
Oct 13, 2020
Episode 86: Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers
01:03:22
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 quantum computer thing. Our guests are Old friends of the show: Matt Sheehy (from Lost Lander), and Brent Knopf (From Ramona Falls and El VY)
Feb 01, 2020
Episode 85: Decoherence Not Incoherence
01:23:22
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 QUANTUM COHERENCE and DECOHERENCE: how a quantum superposition will not stay that way forever. The Environment will start asking it questions until our system loses coherence.
Jan 01, 2020
Episode 84: Super Stars Look Like Zebras
01:43:06
The topic of this Episode is O-type stars, the biggest, brightest stars in the universe! Astrophysicists Dr. Benjamin Brown and Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore break it all down for our guest Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics, and Squirrel Girl).
Nov 30, 2019
Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions
01:07:43
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. today we talk about dark matter candidates: our best guesses for what is causing the crush we feel but cannot see.
Nov 01, 2019
Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds
01:32:36
Andray Domise joins Dr. Sabine Stanley from Johns Hopkins University and Erin Wenckstern from the Weather Network to learn about NEPTUNE! Home to the fastest winds in the solar system, where it rains diamonds, and mysterious "superionic water," the ice giant slowly trudges around its orbit, the farthest planet from the sun!
Sep 30, 2019
Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle
01:18:50
Humorist and Podcaster Benjamin Ahr Harrison (Greatest Generation, Friendly Fire) Join me and Dr. Joey Shapiro Key and Dr. Jocelyn Read to talk about THE NEXT GENERATION of gravitational wave detectors: LISA (the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle) and NANOGRAV our pulsar timing array system!
Aug 21, 2019
Episode 80: Picturing the Bach Hole
01:34:35
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 through this amazing story are Dr. Leo Stein and Dr. Katie Bouman. We learn the basics of Black holes, and the interferometry performed by the Event Horizon Telescope, and then about the complicated image processing which needed to be done to interpret all of that amazing, messy data!
Mar 11, 2019
Episode 79: MiniBooNE or Giant Curse
01:02:29
Particle physicists Dr Erica Caden and Dr. Ken Clark are my physicists today. Our guest today is Author, musician, composer and novelist Cecil Castellucci. Today we're talking about the MinniBooNE experiment and the possibility of Sterile Neutrinos.
Sep 10, 2018
Episode 78 The Heat Death of The Universe
01:14:59
Dr. Katie Mack and Dr. Robert McNees team up to explain the heat death of the universe to Award Winning Author Ken Liu.
Feb 19, 2018
Episode 77: Disruptive Feedback
00:55:44
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. What? How? Courtney Brooke Davis is here to ask the questions! Dr. Victoria Scowcroft and Dr. Carolin Villforth are here to give the answers! and I'm here to talk about pudding.
Oct 13 | 01:03:22
Episode 86: Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers
Feb 01 | 01:23:22
Episode 85: Decoherence Not Incoherence
Jan 01 | 01:43:06
Episode 84: Super Stars Look Like Zebras
Nov 30 | 01:07:43
Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions
Nov 01 | 01:32:36
Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds
Sep 30 | 01:18:50
Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle
Aug 21 | 01:34:35
Episode 80: Picturing the Bach Hole
Mar 11 | 01:02:29
Episode 79: MiniBooNE or Giant Curse
Sep 10 | 01:14:59
Episode 78 The Heat Death of The Universe
Feb 19 | 00:55:44
Episode 77: Disruptive Feedback
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