Fay Dowker: Podcast Interviews

Fay Dowker, PhD

helen.f.dowker

Physicist, Author

2 Interviews

Fay Dowker's Interviews

Fay Dowker • 20 Oct 2023 • EN

156 - Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory

Fay Dowker is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, where she works broadly on quantum gravity, and more particularly on an approach called causal set theory that takes the most basic pieces of the universe to be atoms of spacetime. In this episode, Robinson and Fay begin by discussing her studie

Amy Barrett & Fay Dowker • 02 Mar 2020 • EN

Professor Fay Dowker: What is the problem of quantum gravity?

This week, we’re going on a search for the theory of everything. The two main theories of physics are at odds with one another. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity, but it contradicts quantum theory: how we understand matter, atoms and particles. Theoretical physicist at Imperial College London Professor Fay