Fay Dowker
Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London
4 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough, aged 23, that led to Nobel Prize judges celebrating him as the creator of quantum mechanics.
29 February 2024
Also featuring: Harry Cliff, Frank Close
The Multiverse
Melvyn Bragg and guests will be leaving the studio, the planet and indeed, the universe to take a tour of the Multiverse
21 February 2008
Also featuring: Martin Rees, Bernard Carr
Symmetry
Melvyn Bragg discusses symmetry in art and nature. From snowflakes and butterflies to the music of Bach and the poems of Pushkin.
19 April 2007
Also featuring: Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart
The Physics of Reality
Melvyn Bragg discusses the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory, which deals with the smallest, invisible particles or waves, and the larger scale classical physics of Newton and Einstein.
2 May 2002
Also featuring: Roger Penrose, Tony Sudbery