The Future of Time with Dr James Beacham. Is time travel possible and will time machines ever exist? Mike crashed into Swiss-American CERN particle physicist Dr James Beacham to chat about how we go about bending space and time.
Dr James Beacham is a researcher on the Atlas Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and a popular futurist.
Originally from the midwest USA, James believes that every curious human is secretly a particle physicist and very much enjoys talking about physics with non-specialists… like us!
Mike first met James when he was in Melbourne, Australia to present at Pause Fest. Then in a lucky turn of events, Mike’s travel plans brought him to Geneva and he was able to visit James at CERN.
In this episode Mike asks:
00:00 (Introduction)
01:41 Firstly, the big question. What is time?
03:43 If time's a parameter and a coordinate, how well do we understand it compared to other parameters and coordinates?
05:20 Does that mean that a star that we think is over there, may not actually be there, because the photons have been affected by this force that you're talking about?
05:46 How do you visualise this concept?
06:18 Does that mean we might not have the right metaphor yet? We don't have a proper understanding?
10:09 So what you're getting into there is really about space-time, a concept that came from Einstein, is that right?
10:33 So, how big a legacy has Einstein left for you, as a particle physicist?
11:22 Did Einstein have a time machine? Did he come from the future?
11:40 Do you think we're going be able to have the ability to travel through time?
12:45 When you’re talking about travelling in time, is that forward only? Travelling backwards in time seems like a completely different kettle of fish?
14:30 When it comes to science fiction, what inspires you?
16:23 Let’s project into the future. Where do we land in terms of time?
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