Thursday 25th September 2008   10:30(sold out), 12:00 & 13:30(sold out)   KS4  

Institute of Physics 2008 Schools' and Colleges' Lecture

ROCK IN 11 DIMENSIONS: WHERE PHYSICS AND GUITARS COLLIDE!

Dr Mark Lewney

How rock music may reveal big answers to big questions about the big bang

The Institute of Physics presents their loudest lecture to date. It is an exciting, interactive and inspiring talk for students, which builds on everyday physics to explain groundbreaking research.

This mind-expanding and ear-stimulating lecture will reveal how:

• rock guitars make their distinctive sounds
• string vibrations might answer questions about the Big Bang  
• the LHC - the biggest experiment ever built - might let us peek into extra dimensions.

With hands-on demonstrations, mind-bending animations and expert guitar playing, this lecture will get the audience thinking in multiple dimensions. It will also share the wonder and excitement of how innovative experiments using the Large Hadron collider (LHC) in CERN will let us glimpse what the universe was like in its first trillionth of a second and may even help us discover the origins and nature of matter.

Dr Mark Lewney is a science presenter (and rock guitarist) who works at the UK Intellectual Property Office in Newport, Wales. after years of research into guitar physics at Cardiff University, he won Famelab competition at Cheltenham Science Festival in 2005 (an X-factor for scientists) and has since made many appearances on TV and radio.

Talk Duration:1 hour
For full links see www.iop.org

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