Sevenoaks Catalyst Magazine - Energy Edition Issue 1 - Lent 2020 | Page 11

DARK ENERGY BY SIAN MCALLISTER Professor Martin Hendry from the University of Glasgow visited Sevenoaks and kindly agreed to an interview by the Catalyst editorial team. AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR HENDRY https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/radical-dark-matter- theory-prompts-robust-rebuttals He is the Head of the School of Cosmology and Gravitational Astrophysics. He also worked with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves, which won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. He gave two talks, and his first was about cosmology, with particular attention to dark matter and dark energy. Our interview followed up this talk, and we took the opportunity to find out more about dark energy.