A different take on gravity by MSc Particles, Gravity and Fields students
June 4, 2021
Guest post by Prof Tony Padilla Every so often our students remind you how wonderfully creative and talented they are. This couldn’t have been more true as I marked this years assessments for my Advanced Gravity module. Advanced Gravity forms part of MSc in Particles, Gravity and Fields run jointly between Maths and Physics, and …
Physics and Music
July 29, 2020
One of the great benefits of studying at university is realising how so many subjects are interconnected in sometimes surprising ways. Many of our staff and students are interested in exploring e.g. connections between physics and music, or between physics and art. Our physics undergraduates can take up to 10 credits per semester outside the …
Physics in Film: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
August 26, 2018
This is a guest post from PhD researcher Chris Morley, whose work focuses on Bose-Einstein condensates and associated quantum technologies. Chris outlines some bugbears he has with the use and abuse of physics in films… I do not have a particularly refined taste in films, or TV for that matter. My favourite film franchise is …
From Baryon to Byron: reflections on Creative Reactions 2018
May 25, 2018
Guest post from Prof Mark Fromhold, who was a featured speaker in this year’s Pint of Science and Creative Reaction festivals held earlier this month in Nottingham. A joy of spring is the annual Pint of Science festival, where scientists present their work to a public audience in a public house. Recently, the festival …
The Art of Physics — Guest Post by Noah Harwicke
January 4, 2018
The following is a post from Noah Hardwicke that I really, really should have uploaded long before now. (Sorry, Noah). The Christmas and New Year holiday, combined with the traditional (at least for me) start-of-year illness, slowed me down. Noah highlights the key importance of creativity in physics, and describes how mathematics and physics can …
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