The Thought Experiment
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The Thought Experiment
The Thought Experiment is a podcast devoted to theoretical situations of the same name. Once a week, we cover a thought experiment from the fields of mathematics, physics or philosophy.
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First New Show
The first episode of the new joint podcast, "Questioning the Cosmos" is online. Check it out and stuff!
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Greetings, friends!
By now I'm sure your skeletons have blown away in the wind in anticipation of an update. The Thought Experiment will live on in the Internet's bowels...
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Upcoming interviews
Ok I've been too lazy for too long. This weekend before I head off to CERN I'll post the first of a few interviews I did at the American Physical Soci...
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Shedding Light on Dark Matter (supplement)
Shedding Light on Dark Matter Powerpoint
I've added as supplementary material here, my actual printed powerpoint presentation slides for...
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 4)
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 4)
In the fall I'm giving a lecture series on topics ranging from the history of the universe to time...
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 3)
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 3)
In the fall I'm giving a lecture series on topics ranging from the history of the universe to time...
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 2)
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 2)
In the fall I'm giving a lecture series on topics ranging from the history of the universe to time...
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 1)
Shedding Light on Dark Matter (part 1)
In the fall I'm giving a lecture series on topics ranging from the history of the universe to time...
The Strong Nuclear Force (video)
The Strong Nuclear Force
The Thought Experiment podcast has been kind of stagnant lately. Largely because I've been so busy here on campu...
Quantum Tunneling
Quantum Tunneling
Tunneling is a very, very mathematical process by which a particle can 'leak' out into its surroundings. This has to do...
Intro to Quantum Mechanics
Intro to Quantum Mechanics
Ironically, the delay for this week's quantum mechanics podcast was brought on by quantum mechanics homework....
Link to Old Shows
I realize I haven't put up any new thought experiments quite yet (don't worry, the supply is virtually bottomless), due to exams and other college-rel...
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Borel's Infinite Monkeys
Borel's Infinite Monkeys
Returning triumphant for a second season of thought experimenting, we continue on our history of thought experim...
Q&A With Brian Greene
Q&A With Brian Greene
Last week string theorist and physicist at Columbia University, Brian Greene came to my university as a part of a l...
Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
What can a retired basketball player and a cannon full of paintballs teach us about quantum uncertaint...
The Banach-Tarski Paradox
A mouthful no doubt! This week we go over just how a mathematical universe differs from a physical one on the basis of the Axiom of Choice. More inter...
Rachel Cooper's Overview on Thought Experiments (guest)
Rachel Cooper's Overview
Rachel Cooper, a lecturer at the University of Lancaster, provides for us an overview as to what thought experim...
Einstein's Relativity
Einstein's Relativity
So many topics to cover in so little of time! Time dilation, spacetime continuums, all the sorts of fun stuff you l...
Poincare's Conjecture
Poincare's Conjecture
Amidst more recording troubles, I had to do solo again this week. Alas, the show must go on and this week I talk ab...
Kent Hovind's Last Debate
Kent Hovind's Last Debate
Well, this week we had originally planned to go over Maxwell's Demon, but a screwup in the recording prompted u...
Mach's Machine
Mach's Machine
Courtesy of Stanford
Ersnt Mach proposed that perpetual motion machines went against common sense. In...
Can Life be Patented? (Skypecast)
Can Life Be Patented?
A deep philosophical question indeed, arisen from the recent episode of Science Friday's discussion on ethics of cl...
Olbers' Paradox
Detailing how the universe, if infinite, should be as bright as the surface of the sun, Andrew and I also talk about whether or not if theory is ahead...
Paley's Watch (Guest)
Special guest of the Big Bang and Creationism Podcast and colleague of mine, Robert Lippens joins returning co-host Andrew and I on a discussion about...
Sunday Skypecast!
This Sunday we'll be graced with the presence of a colleague of mine, Robert Lippens, of the Big Bang and Creationism podcast. We'll be discussing Wil...
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