"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was unpredictable when it started." US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Illustration: Botanica, inspired by particle trails, painting by Roshan Houshmand
 

 

Biology is simply applied chemistry and chemistry is just applied physics. Choose physics, the scientist’s science.

Paul Dirac, the father of quantum physics

 

Mr Tarrant is Head of Physics
 

The study of physics is driven by a desire to understand how and why the cosmos exists and behaves as it does. The hardest questions to answer are often the simplest questions to ask. Good physicists never stop asking “simple” questions.