2013 Press Releases
UCC public lecture: Are the laws of physics changing?
Astronomers have investigated whether the laws and constants of physics are the same today as they were billions of years ago.
Are the Laws of Physics Changing? Why is the universe so big and so old? Did it have a beginning and will it have an end? What is the universe made of?
These are some of the questions that Professor John D Barrow of the University of Cambridge will address in a free public lecture at UCC this evening (Tuesday 12 November) at 6pm in G10 lecture theatre, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road.
This lecture will look at what these high-precision observations have been telling us and see why many physicists believe that the laws of physics may be different elsewhere in the Universe.
Speaker John D Barrow is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He is a frequent lecturer and broadcaster to audiences of all sorts. He has written 23 books, translated into 28 languages, which explore many of the wider historical, philosophical and cultural ramifications of developments in astronomy, physics and mathematics. He was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society in 2003 and was awarded the Faraday Medal and Prize in 2008. He is Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project.
This astronomy lecture is organised by the Royal Irish Academy and University College Cork for Science Week 2013. It is the biennial McCrea lecture held to honour Sir William McCrea MRIA (1904-1999), an eminent and influential astronomer