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Podcast Profile: The Hyperfine Physics Podcast

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28 episodes
2018 to 2022
Median: 65 minutes
Collection: Physics, Math, and Astronomy

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Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

This podcast centers on physics puzzles and concept-driven deep dives, using everyday curiosities and headline scientific results as entry points into more formal ideas. Conversations often begin with a seemingly simple question—about motion in accelerating frames, buoyancy in odd situations, energy transfer in chain reactions, or the mechanics behind familiar actions—and then build toward the underlying principles, assumptions, and mathematical framing that make the outcomes intelligible.

A recurring theme is how physicists model the world, test ideas, and live with uncertainty. The show spends time on what it means to measure fundamental constants, how confidence in those measurements evolves, and how scientific claims are strengthened or revised. Listeners also encounter discussions where “common sense” is unreliable, including counterintuitive behavior in fluids, forces in non-inertial reference frames, and the limits of simplistic energy arguments.

Modern physics and its conceptual implications appear frequently. The podcast explores core quantum topics such as entanglement, Bell inequalities, and interpretations of quantum mechanics, along with related questions about locality, realism, and whether randomness is fundamental. Particle physics also features through introductions to the Standard Model and the structure of hadrons, alongside topics like neutrinos.

Thermal physics is another backbone of the feed, with coverage of thermodynamics, entropy, and statistical mechanics, often linking macroscopic laws to microscopic probability and to broader questions like the arrow of time in cosmology.

Applied and interdisciplinary angles show up as well, including acoustic levitation and wave phenomena, orbital mechanics, weather and rotating frames in hurricanes, and even connections between physics and information—such as cryptographic protocols and the physical meaning of stored data. Overall, the show blends conceptual explanation, historical context, and problem-solving to map familiar questions onto foundational physics.

Episodes:

Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 - The universe is not locally real. What does that mean? 2022-Oct-08 37 minutes

Acoustic Levitation w/ Special Guest Dr. David Jackson 2021-Jul-08 62 minutes

Gravitational G and How Science Works 2021-Jun-17 67 minutes

Cosmology and the Arrow of Time 2021-May-16 57 minutes

Is Anything Truly Random? w/Special Guest Grant Ciffone 2021-May-04 57 minutes

How to Keep Time 2021-Apr-20 57 minutes

Entropy & Statistical Mechanics 2021-Apr-08 84 minutes

Thermodynamics 2021-Mar-23 74 minutes

Benford’s Law 2021-Mar-06 57 minutes

Planck, Einstein, and the Origins of Quantum Mechanics 2019-Dec-08 66 minutes

The Physics of Hurricanes 2019-Sep-03 86 minutes

Hadrons – Quark Systems 2019-Jul-27 98 minutes

Neutrinos 2019-May-22 76 minutes

The Standard Model Part 1 2019-May-12 81 minutes

Domino Amplifier 2019-Apr-13 54 minutes

Bohmian Mechanics – Pilot Wave Theory 2019-Apr-07 71 minutes

Relative Motion (Not Relativity) 2019-Mar-31 62 minutes

Bell’s Theorem and EPR 2019-Mar-21 73 minutes

Climbing Magnets 2018-Nov-29 67 minutes

Balloons Inside Balloons and Sweet Spots 2018-Nov-22 66 minutes

Fortnite and the Principle of Least Action 2018-Nov-15 62 minutes

Encryption: Diffie-Hellman & RSA 2018-Nov-08 66 minutes

Geosynchronous Orbits 2018-Nov-01 68 minutes

How Much Weight Do You Lift When Doing a Pushup? 2018-Sep-28 64 minutes

Floating Hourglass 2018-Sep-21 62 minutes

Does Data Have Mass? 2018-Sep-14 59 minutes

Landing on Planets 2018-Sep-06 42 minutes

Intro to The Hyperfine Physics Podcast 2018-Aug-30 24 minutes