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theoretical physics

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We talk to Chiara Marletto about a new way of looking at the physical world that may solve some of the problems physicists are currently struggling with.

What is a particle phenomenologist?

Can physics do for maths what maths has done for physics?

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.

Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.

A quick introduction to one of the greatest discoveries of the century.

A quick introduction to the monsters that lurk at the centre of each galaxy.

What is dark matter and how can the LHC find it?

Could the world be simpler than our senses suggest?

In this podcast we talk to Max Tegmark about his hypothesis that the Universe we live in is a mathematical structure.