Physics

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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.

Chris Carr discusses his involvement in the European Space Agency Rosetta mission, and tells us why it is so important to study comets. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 5 February 2014)