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.

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Author & physicist Dave Clements

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

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)

Awaking Rosetta

In this audio interview, Gail Wilson speaks to Chris Carr about Rosetta's voyage of discovery and his involvement in this European Space Agency mission.

Wake up Rosetta! Chris Carr discusses ESA space mission

Professor Tim Sumner (Physics) explains how the European Space Agency plans to detect gravitational waves, one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 15 January 2014)

eLISA mission

The 2013 Children's Christmas Demonstration presented by Dr Simon Foster, Outreach Officer, Department of Physics

The 2013 Children's Christmas Demonstration Lecture - It IS rocket science

Professors Jerome Gauntlett, Tom Kibble and Tejinder Virdee give their thoughts on the big ideas behind the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. (Extract 1 of 3 from the Imperial Podcast 30 October 2013)

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