Dave Clements

Dr Dave Clements, Senior Lecturer in Imperial's Department of Physics, talks about how his twin passions for astronomical research and science fiction writing complement and interact with each other.

Author & physicist Dave Clements

Relativity

Listen to Professor Fay Dowker talk Samuel Lickiss through the proofs of general relativity – from eclipses to ripples in spacetime.

How do we know general relativity is true?

Black holes are where we could experience some of the most extreme effects of general relativity. So what happens if you fall into one?

What happens if you fall into a black hole?

On 7 January 2014, the Sun's surface erupted with an unusually large explosion, called coronal mass ejection (CME), with NOAA releasing a significant false alarm geomagnetic storm at Earth. Credit: Dr Neel Savani / Imperial College London

Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 7 January 2014

How to construct a better narrative over what really goes on in the subatomic world. Inaugural lecture of Professor Terry Rudolph

Quantum theory: it's unreal

Professor Sir Tom Kibble talks to Imperial alumni about his role in the prediction of the Higgs Boson, the elusive particle whose existence was finally confirmed at CERN in 2012

An audience with Kibble

Dr Arthur Turrell explains his Royal Society Summer Science exhibition, which gives a flavour of experiments that aim to recreate the centre of the sun. (Extract 2 of 4, Imperial Podcast 2 July 2014)

Looking inside the heart of the sun

Using the oldest light to build the newest theories about the universe. The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Andrew Jaffe

The random universe

Join curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, Dr Caroline Smith and Imperial College Astrobiologist Dr Zita Martins to find out how meteorites can help to answer fundamental questions.

Meteorites: A journey through space and time

Dark energy and dark matter pervade the Universe. Professor Alan Heavens discusses how we find their properties and test whether Einstein's gravity theory works.

Dark Energy : Dark Matter : Dark Gravity

Physics

It could control 70% of the universe, but does it exist? Andrew Jaffe and colleagues debate dark energy.

Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast August 2009: Dark Energy

Distinguished CNRS scientist Professor Alain Aspect delivers the 2010 Schrodinger Lecture on qubits.

From Einstein's intuition to quantum bits: a new quantum age? 

Professor Zulfikar Najmudin shows how lasers and plasmas may herald the future for particle accelerators in his inaugural lecture

Giving accelerators a 'light' push

Astrophysics group launch new series called 'The Big Questions' starting off with the Big Bang

New debating series launched exploring big questions about our universe 

Professor Konstantin Novoselov talks about his Nobel Prize winning discovery graphene, and what the future holds for it in the 2012 Kohn Award Lecture

Graphene: materials in the flatland

Professor Tejinder Virdee talks about the CMS experiment currently being conducted at CERN

CMS - the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN

Imperial theoretical physicist Professor Jerome Gauntlett discusses the preliminary results from the Large Hadron Collider and how the ongoing search for the Higgs Boson may change following this week's announcement

Hunt for Higgs boson closes in - Interview with Prof Jerome Gauntlett

Last year ended with promising results from the Large Hadron Collider, but Professor Jordan Nash is keeping the champagne on ice. (Extract 1 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 18 January 2012)

2012: the year of the Higgs boson? 

Imperial scientists gather air pollution data with the help of Brighton school children

Emmissions - testing the air

Professor Sir John Pendry assesses recent developments in the field of transformation optics – the science behind invisibility cloaks. (Extract 4 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 22 August 2012)

Tricks of the light

Your life on Mars: Professor Mark Sephton chooses a book, object and companion for a hypothetical trip to Mars

Extract 5 of 6 from the Imperial College Podcast 30 November 2010 

In her inaugural lecture Professor Fay Dowker asks how can we realise the full potential of relativity and quantum theory?

Spacetime and the quantum: united by history

Professor Jim Virdee looks at how the Large Hadron Collider is addressing some of the most fundamental questions about the origin, evolution and composition of our universe.

The LHC project at CERN: exploring physics moments after the Big Bang

Tejinder Virdee

Tejinder Virdee on what the biggest experiment on Earth can tell us about the building blocks of the universe.

Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast September 2007: Tejinder Virdee on the Large Hadron Collider

What you learnt in physics wasn't exactly a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either. Light can behave in amazing ways with extraordinary consequences. Professor Martin McCall presents his inaugural lecture, held on 2 March 2011.

Lies, damned lies and tricking the light fantastic

Professor Steve Rose talks about his research on high energy density physics

Fusion for the future

John Tisch talks about being promoted to Professor at Imperial, and his work on capturing the movements of electrons inside atoms.

Imperial's new Professor of Physics, John Tisch

RAMIRI symposium held to discuss future of Europe's research facilities

Imperial welcomes European leaders in science

In the first of two reports from the Cheltenham Science Festival, Simon Levey speaks to Professor Tejinder Virdee about why the Large Hadron Collider might be considered the greatest scientific achievement of the last 10 years.

Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College podcast 29 June 2011

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