The Other End of a Black Hole

The other end of a black hole – with James Beacham

What's a Zero Room anyway? 

The Doctor said something about 'null interfaces'.

I suppose it's some sort of neutral environment --

An isolated space cut off from the rest of The Universe.

He should've told me that's what he wanted -- 

I could've shown him Brisbane.

What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Join James Beacham, particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, as he explores what happens when the fabric of reality – physical or societal – gets twisted beyond recognition.

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James Beacham searches for answers to the biggest open questions of physics using the largest experiment ever, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He hunts for dark matter, gravitons, quantum black holes, and dark photons as a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. In addition to his research, he is a frequent keynote speaker about science, innovation, the future of technology, and art at events and venues around the world, including the American Museum of Natural History, the Royal Institution, SXSW, and the BBC, as well as private events for companies and corporations, including KPMG, Bain, Dept Agency, and many others. This talk was recorded at the Royal Institution on 28 October 2021.

1:11 What causes gravity?

4:19 What is space?

7:55 The flow and mobility of space causing black holes

14:33 How do we know black holes really exist?

19:58 How to make a black hole

26:08 Could we be living in a giant black hole?

31:26 The universe-in-a-black-hole idea

36:44 Why the large hadron collider could only make a miniature black hole

45:04 Building a big bang machine in space

47:25 Journey into a black hole

52:41 Our societal black hole

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