96 episodes

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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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.

    Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers

    Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers

    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)

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Decoherence Not Incoherence

    Decoherence Not Incoherence

    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. 

    • 1 hr 23 min
    Super Stars Look Like Zebras

    Super Stars Look Like Zebras

    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). 

    • 1 hr 43 min
    Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions

    Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions

    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. 

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds

    Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds

    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!

    • 1 hr 32 min
    Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle

    Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle

    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! 

    • 1 hr 18 min

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