A team from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at King’s brought physics to life at Light’s Colour Action, an Imperial Lates event.
Dr Jess Wade (Imperial College London), Dr Diptiranjan Paital (King’s College London), and Megan Grace-Hughes (LCN Centre Manager) created Photon Beats, a silent disco where visitors danced to sounds recorded in LCN labs while learning about the behaviour of light and photons. The dance transformed key ideas in photonics into an immersive experience where guests embodied waves, particles, energy, colour and light–matter interactions.
Photon Beats follows on from the Quantum Disco, part of Quantum Leaps, a project funded by STEM Learning. Photon Beats used music and movement to make complex phenomena accessible and memorable.
Image: Brendan Foster & Imperial College London
