World-renowned physicist, Claudia de Rham, discusses her book “The Beauty of Falling: A life in Pursuit of Gravity,” where she shares captivating stories about her quest to gain intimacy with gravity - to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature.
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Her life’s pursuit led her from a twist of fate that snatched away her dream of becoming an astronaut to an exhilarating breakthrough at the very frontiers of gravitational physics. She found hints of a hidden side to gravity at the particle level where Einstein’s theory breaks down, leading her to develop a new theory of “massive gravity.” Claudia shares how her life’s path turned from a precipitous fall to an exquisite flight toward the discovery of something entirely new about our surprising, gravity-driven universe.
Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist based at Imperial College London and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics won her the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2020. She is a tireless campaigner against the underrepresentation of girls in physics and frequently speaks in schools and for other organizations about diversity in the sciences. She is ranked among the most influential researchers in fundamental physics of the past decade.
Moderated by Zara Brownless.