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)

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)

Episode 86: Live at AAAS- Quantum Computers

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. 

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.

Episode 85: Decoherence Not Incoherence

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). 

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).

Episode 84: Super Stars Look Like Zebras

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. 

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.

Episode 83: Feeling Feeble WIMPS and Axions

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!

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!

Episode 82: Snowing Diamonds

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! 

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!

Episode 81: LISA the Giant Tumbling Space Triangle

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! 

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!

Episode 80: Picturing the Bach Hole

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. 

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.

Episode 79: MiniBooNE or Giant Curse

Dr. Katie Mack and Dr. Robert McNees team up to explain the heat death of the universe to Award Winning Author Ken Liu. 

Dr. Katie Mack and Dr. Robert McNees team up to explain the heat death of the universe to Award Winning Author Ken Liu.

Episode 78 The Heat Death of The Universe

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. 

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.

Episode 77: Disruptive Feedback

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.

The pairing of physicists and non physicists brings out questions the listener has.  Enjoy😊

Physics made simple and interesting

New insights into topics that I’ve been reading about for decades.  So glad I found this podcast.

Deep, understandable and fun

The Titanium Physicists Podcast

Maya Inamura Joins Me, Katie Mack and Leo Stein and we talk aboutTEST OF GENERAL RELATIVITY

Maya Inamura Joins Me, Katie Mack and Leo Stein and we talk aboutTEST OF GENERAL RELATIVITY

Episode 64: E and N (The edges of Einstein)

Dave, Jocelyn and I sit down with dr mcninja creator Christopher Hastings. We teach him about time travel. 

Dave, Jocelyn and I sit down with dr mcninja creator Christopher Hastings. We teach him about time travel.

Episode 3: Time Travel

Jocelyn Read! Katie Mack! Jesse Moynihan! A mighty ensemble to talk about the strangest thing in physics: Gravitational Singularities! Black Holes! Big Bangs! Event Horizons! ADVENTURE. 

Jocelyn Read! Katie Mack! Jesse Moynihan! A mighty ensemble to talk about the strangest thing in physics: Gravitational Singularities! Black Holes! Big Bangs! Event Horizons! ADVENTURE.

Episode 43: Approaching Singularity

I was super excited about this Episode! Our Guest is Patrick McHale! We Talk about CPT symmetry (Charge-Parity-Time inversion symmetry), which leads to discussions about antimatter, and the nature of time. it's a SUPER EPISODE! It goes ON AND ON! CRAZY AWESOME PHYSICS!   Physicists Tia Miceli and Ryan Martin!

I was super excited about this Episode! Our Guest is <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?es_sm=119&amp;q=patrick+mchale&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgxEHnxCXfq6-QVV5ZW68hRKYnVuekhNvriWWnWyln5aZkwsmrFIyi1KTS_KLznC2rObjPHLv1sTJap0rryff2b_8LAA5skFoTwAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=WyeVVPOHMZC0oQT7y4CgCQ&amp;ved=0CI8BEJsTKAEwFw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patrick McHale</a>! We Talk about CPT symmetry (Charge-Parity-Time inversion symmetry), which leads to discussions about antimatter, and the nature of time. it's a SUPER EPISODE! It goes ON AND ON! CRAZY AWESOME PHYSICS! Physicists Tia Miceli and Ryan Martin!

Episode 52: Through The Mirror

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!

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!

Episode 58: Extraordinary Evidence

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 gas. But the first stars came, and pushed back the darkness and made the heavens clear. This is the story of the dark age of the universe. Physicists Vicky Scowcroft and Mike Zemcov explain everything to THE TOLKEIN PROFESSOR Corey Olsen. 

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 gas. But the first stars came, and pushed back the darkness and made the heavens clear. This is the story of the dark age of the universe. Physicists Vicky Scowcroft and Mike Zemcov explain everything to THE TOLKEIN PROFESSOR Corey Olsen.

Episode 41: The Light Which Pushes Back The Darkness

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't get the "regular show" part under 40 minutes *shame*. perhaps... your clock is just running faster than mine? well... it's summer.  anyway! This episode's guest is Michael Mookie Terracciano, author of the webcomic "Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire" and we're taking the special event of our 20th episode to talk about SPECIAL RELATIVITY. 

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't get the "regular show" part under 40 minutes *shame*. perhaps... your clock is just running faster than mine? well... it's summer. anyway! This episode's guest is Michael Mookie Terracciano, author of the webcomic<a href="http://www.dominic-deegan.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> "Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire"</a> and we're taking the special event of our 20th episode to talk about SPECIAL RELATIVITY.

Episode 20: Time Dilates When You're Having Fun

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) todays show is about quantum tunneling. it features henry Reich blowing us all out of the water with his high caliber explanations. It also features Justin Pierce of Wonderella fame. you should watch one minute physics videos and read wonderella. skip work today. 2.0) sorry about the sound quality, i'm still fighting a new internet connection. I'm doing my best, and i have honestly spent about 12 hours edting this.  2.1) at the end of the show is a lot of content that I threw into the appendices. enjoy.  2) Apple has a new podcast app. go see if you can find us on it? if you can't write us a review or something. I'm still trying to wrangle it currently. I hate it when things change. 3) maybe nominations for this year's podcasting awards are going to open up? maybe we should be nominated for the science category? maybe we don't stand a chance against those skeptics podcasts. maybe lots of things happen. getting on that list sure would make a lot of people notice the show though. 4) KEEP SCIENCE IN YOUR HEARTS! 5) If we get nominated for a podcasting award, i'll try to find a better (cheaper) place that sells t-shirts. then, tshirts for everyone!

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) todays show is about quantum tunneling. it features henry Reich blowing us all out of the water with his high caliber explanations. It also features Justin Pierce of Wonderella fame. you should watch one minute physics videos and read wonderella. skip work today. 2.0) sorry about the sound quality, i'm still fighting a new internet connection. I'm doing my best, and i have honestly spent about 12 hours edting this.  2.1) at the end of the show is a lot of content that I threw into the appendices. enjoy.  2) Apple has a new podcast app. go see if you can find us on it? if you can't write us a review or something. I'm still trying to wrangle it currently. I hate it when things change. 3) maybe nominations for this year's podcasting awards are going to open up? maybe we should be nominated for the science category? maybe we don't stand a chance against those skeptics podcasts. maybe lots of things happen. getting on that list sure would make a lot of people notice the show though. 4) KEEP SCIENCE IN YOUR HEARTS! 5) If we get nominated for a podcasting award, i'll try to find a better (cheaper) place that sells t-shirts. then, tshirts for everyone!

Episode 23: Quantum Tunneling

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 superconductors work when i chose this topic. I don't know why i never learned how it worked, but I never did. whoops.  anyway, the answer is crazy. it has to do with electrons getting married and having to get their credit card spending under control.  I don't know if that Gail Lady visited them or what. 

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 superconductors work when i chose this topic. I don't know why i never learned how it worked, but I never did. whoops.  anyway, the answer is crazy. it has to do with electrons getting married and having to get their credit card spending under control.  I don't know if that Gail Lady visited them or what.

Episode 18: That Superconductor Episode

Biophysicists Dr. Nicole Prent and Dr. Jacqueline Townsend are back. this time we're talking about Electron Spin Resonance, a technique that's like Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, but different.  our guest this time is Diana Goodman, Host of the Thirty Twenty Ten podcast.

Biophysicists Dr. Nicole Prent and Dr. Jacqueline Townsend are back. this time we're talking about Electron Spin Resonance, a technique that's like Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, but different. our guest this time is Diana Goodman, Host of the Thirty Twenty Ten podcast.

Episode 74: Jingle Bell Sweaters

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 AMAZING! Dan Harmon (From Channel 101, The Sarah Silverman Show, Monster House,  COMMUNITY!, Harmontown (the podcast), Harmontown (the documentary about the podcast), and Rick and Morty) joins us! Physicist Katherine Brown RETURNS! and Ken Clark is flying shotgun!TODAYS EPISODE TOPIC: QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT. this is a lovely episode and i am prouder than punch to present it to you.

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 AMAZING! Dan Harmon (From Channel 101, The Sarah Silverman Show, Monster House,  COMMUNITY!, Harmontown (the podcast), Harmontown (the documentary about the podcast), and Rick and Morty) joins us! Physicist Katherine Brown RETURNS! and Ken Clark is flying shotgun!TODAYS EPISODE TOPIC: QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT. this is a lovely episode and i am prouder than punch to present it to you.

Episode 56: What "In Tangles" Meant

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. 

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.

Episode 59: Strange Truth and Charming Beauty

The Titanium Physicists explain the Solar Neutrino Problem To Artist and Apiarist Amy Pollien. 

The Titanium Physicists explain the Solar Neutrino Problem To Artist and Apiarist Amy Pollien.

Episode 4: The Solar Neutrino Problem

BIOPHYSICS! Nicole Prent! Jacqueline Townsend! Broadway actor Brian Cross joins us to talk about how biophysicists use frequency doubling of photons To LOOK INSIDE CELLS! well, it's really cool I can't wait for you to hear it!

BIOPHYSICS! Nicole Prent! Jacqueline Townsend! Broadway actor Brian Cross joins us to talk about how biophysicists use frequency doubling of photons To LOOK INSIDE CELLS! well, it's really cool I can't wait for you to hear it!

Episode 57: Two Photons Walk Into An H Bar

Christopher Reynaga

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 it up, a link to a podcast reading of the story will be on teh website.   Anyway, I wanted to talk to him so I told him that I'd explain many worlds Quantum mechanics to him. well, that and copenhagen interpretation, why not. So this week's episode is where the math side of physics meets the philosophy side of physics! Experts are Ken Clark and Tia Miceli .

Christopher Reynaga is an awesome author, and he has written the best story ever which is called  <a href="http://www.christopherreynaga.com/index.php/i-only-am-escaped-alone-to-tell-thee-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee”</a> . look it up, a link to a podcast reading of the story will be on teh website. Anyway, I wanted to talk to him so I told him that I'd explain many worlds Quantum mechanics to him. well, that and copenhagen interpretation, why not. So this week's episode is where the math side of physics meets the philosophy side of physics! Experts are Ken Clark and Tia Miceli .

Ep 49: Parallel Philosophies with Christopher Reynaga

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 will make sense, because we will introduce the Equivalence Principle.  the movie "Twins" is referred to about 1,000,000 times this episode. BE WARNED.   this episode is rated explicit because sometimes I don't want to cut the mildly dirty jokes, okay?!

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 will make sense, because we will introduce the Equivalence Principle.  the movie "Twins" is referred to about 1,000,000 times this episode. BE WARNED.  this episode is rated explicit because sometimes I don't want to cut the mildly dirty jokes, okay?!

Episode 29: Dark Equivalence

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 and they aren't even going to find it anyway." then they found it and everyone was like "Hey Ben! Do a show on the higgs!" and i was like "ugh, I need to do at least four episodes. One on particle decay, one on particel detectors, one on the higgs field, and then maybe a detailed on on how they found it. but that's hard..." anyway. So. here's a show on the Higgs field. It's how everything gets mass. kind of. we're in tip of the iceberg territory here. OKAY! SO! Today's physicists are Tia Miceli, and Matt Buckley. and our guest today is Greg Proops, The smartest man in the world.  Enjoy. 

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 and they aren't even going to find it anyway." then they found it and everyone was like "Hey Ben! Do a show on the higgs!" and i was like "ugh, I need to do at least four episodes. One on particle decay, one on particel detectors, one on the higgs field, and then maybe a detailed on on how they found it. but that's hard..." anyway. So. here's a show on the Higgs field. It's how everything gets mass. kind of. we're in tip of the iceberg territory here. OKAY! SO! Today's physicists are Tia Miceli, and Matt Buckley. and our guest today is Greg Proops,<a href="http://www.gregproops.com/blog/smartest-man-in-the-world-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The smartest man in the world</a>.  Enjoy.

Episode 24: Higgs In A Blanket

Matt Sheehy

Brent Knopf

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 explain how magnets work?  the question is rhetorical, though, because the answer is obviously "yes I can do it because i am a physicist and i have clever physicist friends who also know a lot about it." i recruited my old pals Brian Sullivan and Fiona Burnell!  Our guests today are Matt Sheehy from the band 'Lost Lander' and Brent Knopf from the band 'Ramona Falls'.  the show is super extra long and we talk about everythinggg! from how magnetic fields are generated, to how magnets work, to how to levitate a frog, to how the sun and earth's magnetic fields work, to how guitar pickups work. it's a good episode. you should note that a lot of the topics we mention (solar flares, superconductors) have their OWN EPSIODES all about them. 

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 explain how magnets work?  the question is rhetorical, though, because the answer is obviously "yes I can do it because i am a physicist and i have clever physicist friends who also know a lot about it." i recruited my old pals Brian Sullivan and Fiona Burnell!  Our guests today are Matt Sheehy from the band '<a href="http://lost-lander.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lost Lander</a>' and Brent Knopf from the band '<a href="http://ramonafalls.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ramona Falls</a>'.  the show is super extra long and we talk about everythinggg! from how magnetic fields are generated, to how magnets work, to how to levitate a frog, to how the sun and earth's magnetic fields work, to how guitar pickups work. it's a good episode. you should note that a lot of the topics we mention (solar flares, superconductors) have their OWN EPSIODES all about them.

Domains of Influence with Matt Sheehy and Brent Knopf

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 short, Physicists are on the verge of being able to listen to the music of the spheres... those horrible monstrous spheres which have been devouring planets and stars for untold aeons. Who knows what we will hear? 

Dave and Jocelyn are back, and we talk to Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer (from the <a href="http://hppodcraft.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HP Lovecraft literary Podcast</a>) about Gravitational waves. Long story short, Physicists are on the verge of being able to listen to the music of the spheres... those horrible monstrous spheres which have been devouring planets and stars for untold aeons. Who knows what we will hear?

Episode 6: Gravitational Waves

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 way crappier than it sounded in my head. after all these years of thinking i had a good doctor evil impression.. turns out i suck.   THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT LASERS! Dr. Abby Shockley and Dr. Tia Miceli join me in trying to explain lasers to a very Patient Aaron Fischer. this episode is super fun.

Appologies. <ol> <li>the audio turned out way crunchier than i thought it would be while we recorded. I tried to fix it. </li> <li>My "Doctor Evil" impression is way crappier than it sounded in my head. after all these years of thinking i had a good doctor evil impression.. turns out i suck.</li> <li></li> </ol> THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT LASERS! Dr. Abby Shockley and Dr. Tia Miceli join me in trying to explain lasers to a very Patient Aaron Fischer. this episode is super fun.

Episode 55:  Laser Laser Laser Laser Laser Laser

The best podcast episodes about true crime. For any thrill seeking podcast listeners who just can't get enough of the captivating stories of murderers and criminals. This topic has all the best episodes from many different true crime podcasts.  Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

Best True Crime Podcasts

The Best Multi-Part Documentaries, with documentaries on Obama, Federer vs Nadal, the making of Star Wars, Netflix vs Blockbuster and more. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!