Name: Making Waves In The Universe
Start: 2018-05-16T
End: 2018-05-16T
Location: The Yorkshire Grey

From the electromagnetic spectrum to ripples on the ocean, waves are ubiquitous in physics. The talks here will lead us on an exploration through the most extreme and fascinating areas of the scientific world. Professor Andreas Fring will discuss the strange phenomena of wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics- a theory describing the elementary building blocks of matter. Hamish Forbes will then explain the recent, exciting discovery of gravitational waves, originating from a pair of merging black holes, the densest objects in our universe.

Waves, Particles, Wave-particles and Solitons

Professor Andreas Fring (Director Research Mathematics)

In classical physics the fundamental concepts of waves and particles are mutually exclusive. While the former characterise objects that are not localised in space, the latter describe objects with a well-defined position in space. In contrast, in quantum mechanics these concepts are different aspects of the same object that seems to possess a non-separable wave-particle nature. In this talk I will describe some well-known quantum experiments that inevitably lead to such a dual description and discuss the interpretational difficulties for quantum mechanics that arise from these observations.

Gravitational waves

Hamish Forbes (Mathematics Phd Student)

Gravitational waves: What are they and why was their detection so important? First you will get a flavour of the theory behind gravitational waves, then you will find out how they were detected and why it generated so much excitement.

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