The Secrets of Gravity – with Professor de Rham
public in-person lecture
Gravity is the overarching miracle connecting everything, everywhere, forever in the Universe.
Claudia de Rham - Professor in the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics, Imperial; co-author of an Encyclopaedia of Cosmology and her first popular science book 'The Beauty of Falling – A Life in Pursuit of Gravity' is being translated in over 10 languages so far.
Gravity has been tested with impeccable agreement in the most challenging environments from the edges of black holes to the weakest strain of gravitational waves. Yet, at the core of all its successes, its most profound feature yet is that it predicts its own fall.
The groundbreaking physicist, Claudia de Rham, uncovered the downfall of gravity in this talk. She pushes the limits of knowledge and argues how navigating through the foundations of gravity may underpin the origin and fate of the Universe - while naturally explaining its accelerated expansion without postulating the need for a new kind of ad hoc and unknown dark energy.
Claudia de Rham has held professor positions across the World and is now a Professor in the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics at Imperial. Her research challenges our understanding of the laws of nature and in particular that of gravity in pursuit of a more fundamental description of our Universe and the laws that govern it. Her work has provided new perspectives to understand the origin of the Universe, its accelerated expansion and the fundamental nature of gravity.
An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is ranked among the most impactful researchers in fundamental physics of the past decade and her contributions to science have been recognised by numerous grants and awards, including the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, the Adams Prize for contributions to Mathematics and the Blavatnik Award. She’s the author of an Encyclopaedia of Cosmology with Imperial Professor Andrew J. Tolley and her first popular science book The Beauty of Falling – A Life in Pursuit of Gravity is being translated in over 10 languages so far.
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