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Theoretical Physics – From Outer Space to Plasma

General Relativity: what is it & why Einstein conceived it thus

45 min • 24 september 2015

Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the eighth Saturday Morning of Theoretical Physics on 19 September 2015. Talk 2 by Professor John Wheater.

Senaste avsnitt

Searching for the origin of black hole mergers in the Universe with gravitational waves

28 november 2023 | 46 min

Gravitational radiation: an overview

28 november 2023 | 69 min

How the weird and wonderful properties of magnetised laser plasmas could ignite fusion-energy research

2 juni 2023 | 44 min

Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion

2 juni 2023 | 36 min

Magnetic confinement fusion: Science that’s hotter than a Kardashian Instagram post

2 juni 2023 | 41 min

The spaghettification of stars by supermassive black holes: understanding one of nature’s most extreme events

3 mars 2023 | 40 min

Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events

3 mars 2023 | 39 min

Inflation and the Very Early Universe

3 mars 2023 | 43 min

Axion Searches from Black Holes to the Basement

1 december 2022 | 45 min

Axion Electrodynamics in Solid-State Materials

1 december 2022 | 42 min

The Axion: How Angles Become Particles

1 december 2022 | 48 min

Fluid-gravity duality and hydrodynamics of black holes

29 april 2021 | 44 min

Hydrodynamics of Quantum Many-Body Systems Out of Equilibrium

29 april 2021 | 37 min

Why Hydrodynamics?

29 april 2021 | 46 min

Strings and Fields

16 januari 2021 | 32 min

Classical and Quantum Black Holes

16 januari 2021 | 36 min

Why is Quantum Gravity so hard?

16 januari 2021 | 33 min

Machine learning techniques in modern quantum-mechanics experiments

22 mars 2020 | 37 min

Machine Learning and String Theory

22 mars 2020 | 52 min

An Introduction to deep learning

22 mars 2020 | 53 min

Welcome by Ian Shipsey Head of the Department of Physics

22 mars 2020 | 6 min

Cosmic acceleration revealed by Type la supernovae?

1 november 2019 | 41 min

Supernova Explosions and their Role in the Universe

1 november 2019 | 49 min

What makes stars go bang?

1 november 2019 | 47 min

... from collisions to the Higgs boson

16 maj 2019 | 35 min

From protons to collisions…

16 maj 2019 | 36 min

What the Large Hadron Collider is telling us about the Higgs sector and its new interactions

16 maj 2019 | 45 min

Why the world is simple - Prof Ard Louis

15 februari 2019 | 39 min

Topology in Biology - Prof Julia Yeomans FRS

15 februari 2019 | 39 min

Welcome from the Head of the Physics Department

15 februari 2019 | 14 min

Entropy from Entanglement

3 december 2018 | 42 min

Entropy: two short stories

3 december 2018 | 40 min

Entropy: Gaining Knowledge by Admitting Ignorance

3 december 2018 | 53 min

Networked Quantum Information Technologies

6 juli 2018 | 21 min

Quantum logic with trapped-ion qubits

6 juli 2018 | 25 min

The ultimate limits of privacy and randomness...for the paranoid ones

6 juli 2018 | 55 min

“Open” Quantum Systems

6 juli 2018 | 47 min

Quantum Systems from Group up

6 juli 2018 | 40 min

Galaxy Dynamics: The chemical evolution side

25 januari 2018 | 39 min

Galaxy Dynamics: The dynamics of galaxy discs

25 januari 2018 | 44 min

Galaxy Dynamics: Stellar systems: a new state of matter

25 januari 2018 | 51 min

Superfluids in Flatland: Topology, Defects, and the 2016 Nobel Prize

3 november 2017 | 43 min

Quantum mechanics on the human scale

3 november 2017 | 36 min

From Identical Particles to Frictionless Flow

3 november 2017 | 46 min

Exploring the very early universe with gravitational waves

10 maj 2017 | 47 min

The birth of gravitational wave astronomy

10 maj 2017 | 43 min

From action at a distance to gravitational waves

10 maj 2017 | 47 min

Kilometres: Turbulence - Morning of Theroetical Physics

28 februari 2017 | 46 min

Microns: The bacterial viewpoint - Morning of Theroetical Physics

28 februari 2017 | 39 min

Centimetres: Fluids all around us - Morning of Theroetical Physics

28 februari 2017 | 47 min

Topology and the Classification of Matter: New Physics Hidden in Plain Sight

1 november 2016 | 36 min

Magnets, superfluids and superconductors

1 november 2016 | 47 min

Identical particles: from one to many

1 november 2016 | 44 min

String Theory, Holography and Quark-Gluon Plasma

24 maj 2016 | 47 min

String Theory and Particle Physics

24 maj 2016 | 44 min

String Theory: Then and Now

24 maj 2016 | 44 min

How computers have changed the way we do physics - Breaking through the quantum barrier

11 februari 2016 | 39 min

How computers have changed the way we do physics - Structure in complex systems

11 februari 2016 | 37 min

How computers have changed the way we do physics - Chaos and climate change

11 februari 2016 | 52 min

Gravitational lensing: one of the sharpest tools in an astronomer's toolbox

24 september 2015 | 47 min

General Relativity: what is it & why Einstein conceived it thus

24 september 2015 | 45 min

Cosmology from General Relativity

24 september 2015 | 41 min

Making the Vacuum Concrete (Slides)

21 maj 2015 | min

Making the Vacuum Concrete

21 maj 2015 | 48 min

Basics of Anyons and Nonabelian Aharanov-Bohm Effect

14 maj 2015 | 39 min

Knots, World-lines, and Topological Quantum Computation

14 maj 2015 | 34 min

Quantum Computing

14 maj 2015 | 49 min

Searches for Dark Matter

24 mars 2015 | 40 min

Precision Studies of the Higgs

24 mars 2015 | 33 min

The Standard Model and the LHC

24 mars 2015 | 39 min

The impact of black holes on the Universe

24 mars 2015 | 47 min

Black holes in the nearby Universe

24 mars 2015 | 45 min

Black holes in Einstein's gravity and beyond

24 mars 2015 | 44 min

Plasma tamed, fusion power and the theoretical challenge

24 mars 2015 | 52 min

Turbulence: Plasma Unleashed

24 mars 2015 | 56 min

Plasma: what it is, how to make it and how to hold it

24 mars 2015 | 39 min

String Theory on the Sky

24 mars 2015 | 33 min

Darkness Visible: The Hunt For Dark Matter

24 mars 2015 | 31 min

Inner space meets outer space: Introduction

24 mars 2015 | 34 min

Motility in Living Matter: from molecular motors to bacterial swarms

24 mars 2015 | 48 min

Living Matter: a theoretical physics perspective

24 mars 2015 | 49 min

Matter Emerges from the Vacuum

24 mars 2015 | 23 min

The Vacuum Comes Alive

24 mars 2015 | 34 min

General Relativity: what is it & why Einstein conceived it thus

Senaste avsnitt

Nonlinear dynamics of active particles

The physics of “flat” electrons

How to program a quantum computer

A New Twist on Topology: The Rise of “Moiré Materials”

Anyons: New Types of Particles in Quantum Physics

Topology in the Physics of Condensed Matter

The Hubble Tension

Cosmic strings and gravitational waves from the early Universe

Chirality in living systems

Imaging living systems

Statistical physics of living systems

The Miracle of Quantum Error Correction

Simulating physics beyond computer power

A liquid of quarks and gluons

Possible sources for the gravitational wave background

Searching for the origin of black hole mergers in the Universe with gravitational waves

Gravitational radiation: an overview

How the weird and wonderful properties of magnetised laser plasmas could ignite fusion-energy research

Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion

Magnetic confinement fusion: Science that’s hotter than a Kardashian Instagram post

The spaghettification of stars by supermassive black holes: understanding one of nature’s most extreme events

Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events

Inflation and the Very Early Universe

Axion Searches from Black Holes to the Basement

Axion Electrodynamics in Solid-State Materials

The Axion: How Angles Become Particles

Fluid-gravity duality and hydrodynamics of black holes

Hydrodynamics of Quantum Many-Body Systems Out of Equilibrium

Why Hydrodynamics?

Strings and Fields

Classical and Quantum Black Holes

Why is Quantum Gravity so hard?

Machine learning techniques in modern quantum-mechanics experiments

Machine Learning and String Theory

An Introduction to deep learning

Welcome by Ian Shipsey Head of the Department of Physics

Cosmic acceleration revealed by Type la supernovae?

Supernova Explosions and their Role in the Universe

What makes stars go bang?

... from collisions to the Higgs boson

From protons to collisions…

What the Large Hadron Collider is telling us about the Higgs sector and its new interactions

Why the world is simple - Prof Ard Louis

Topology in Biology - Prof Julia Yeomans FRS

Welcome from the Head of the Physics Department

Entropy from Entanglement

Entropy: two short stories

Entropy: Gaining Knowledge by Admitting Ignorance

Networked Quantum Information Technologies

Quantum logic with trapped-ion qubits

The ultimate limits of privacy and randomness...for the paranoid ones

“Open” Quantum Systems

Quantum Systems from Group up

Galaxy Dynamics: The chemical evolution side

Galaxy Dynamics: The dynamics of galaxy discs

Galaxy Dynamics: Stellar systems: a new state of matter

Superfluids in Flatland: Topology, Defects, and the 2016 Nobel Prize

Quantum mechanics on the human scale

From Identical Particles to Frictionless Flow

Exploring the very early universe with gravitational waves

The birth of gravitational wave astronomy

From action at a distance to gravitational waves

Kilometres: Turbulence - Morning of Theroetical Physics

Microns: The bacterial viewpoint - Morning of Theroetical Physics

Centimetres: Fluids all around us - Morning of Theroetical Physics

Topology and the Classification of Matter: New Physics Hidden in Plain Sight

Magnets, superfluids and superconductors

Identical particles: from one to many

String Theory, Holography and Quark-Gluon Plasma

String Theory and Particle Physics

String Theory: Then and Now

How computers have changed the way we do physics - Breaking through the quantum barrier

How computers have changed the way we do physics - Structure in complex systems

How computers have changed the way we do physics - Chaos and climate change

Gravitational lensing: one of the sharpest tools in an astronomer's toolbox

General Relativity: what is it & why Einstein conceived it thus

Cosmology from General Relativity

Making the Vacuum Concrete (Slides)