Sheila Rowan's guest appearances

Sheila Rowan

The Life Scientific

Ri Science Podcast

Brainwaves

Anne Glover

Niamh Nic Daeid

Richard Morris

Peter Higgs

Steve Brusatte

Geoff Palmer

Sean Carroll

Brian Cox

Brian Greene

Richard Dawkins

Lawrence Krauss

Carlos Frenk

Venki Ramakrishnan

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Steve Jones

OwlTail

Half a century after the search for gravitational waves began, scientists confirmed that they had finally been detected in February 2016. Physicists around the world were ecstatic. It was proof at last that Einstein was right: the tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that he predicted a hundred years ago are real. And now that we can detect them, a new era for astronomy is anticipated. Traditional telescopes rely on light for information. No good when you want to find objects that are dark. Now for the first time we can 'see' black holes colliding. Sheila talks to Jim at the Cheltenham Science Festival about her part in this momentous discovery. Producer: Anna Buckley.

Half a century after the search for gravitational waves began, scientists confirmed that they had finally been detected in February 2016. Physicists around the world were ecstatic. It was proof at last that Einstein was right: the tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that he predicted a hundred years ago are real. And now that we can detect them, a new era for astronomy is anticipated. Traditional telescopes rely on light for information. No good when you want to find objects that are dark. Now for the first time we can 'see' black holes colliding. <br><br>Sheila talks to Jim at the Cheltenham Science Festival about her part in this momentous discovery. <br><br>Producer: Anna Buckley.

Sheila Rowan on gravitational waves

This week, Pennie speaks to Professor Sheila Rowan, Director of the Institute for Gravitational Research at Glasgow University. Sheila is an astrophysicist whose work is concerned with creating the technology to detect gravitational waves in the universe. This is truly groundbreaking research, and if everything goes according to plan, the first wave detectors will be operational towards the end of the decade. Detecting gravitational waves should offer answers to some of the fundamental questions at the core of all of us - where did we come from and how did it all begin?

Professor Sheila Rowan