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Spaced Out
A Two-Part Series on that Nature of Space, Higher Dimensions and the Multiverse
With Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr
Thursday January 16 and 23, 2025
A two-session series – each session will last two hours.
All registered participants will receive the RECORDING.
Part 1
Thursday January 16, 2025
A Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Space with Jonathan Allday
This talk is intended to be a grounding in the physicists’ conception of space. It will discuss the relativity of space and time, how we distinguish between spatial and temporal dimensions, space-time, the curvature of space and what we mean by (various) forms of higher dimensions.
Part 2
Thursday January 23, 2025
Spaced Out: A Conversation Between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday
The conversation is designed to be a follow-up to their earlier discussion ‘It’s About Time.’ Themes will include space-time, the curvature of space around a black hole, higher dimensions in their various forms, and the multiverse. We will also touch upon the anthropic principle, cosmology and Bernard’s conception of higher dimensions and the mind.
Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe, dark matter, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University, Tokyo University, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network.
Jonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre, CERN, in Geneva.
Also, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992.
On the back of the work on this syllabus, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks, Leptons and the Big Bang, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions.
Professionally, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools.
Jonathan is married to Carolyn, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.