The other end of a black hole – with James Beacham
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Published 2022-06-16
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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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All Comments (21)
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This guy is one more acid trip away from going full mad scientist. I like him.
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I love the way some of these present day physicists are incredibly good presenters, and explain it so well to us laypeople
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"Regular impossible is impossible right up to someone makes it possible" amazing sentence. good job James Beacham!
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So glad I found this! This lecture is just what the doctor ordered for explaining the advanced theoretical concepts of what's occurring in astrophysics today in plain language. Thanks for posting!
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The lecture was very interesting and full of brilliant ideas, Delivery was powerful with enormous courage, passion and skill on display. Very much appreciated.
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God what I would have given to witness this lecture live in person man. People complained about him stumbling over his words but I think he did a phenomenal job and couldn’t applaud him enough. And I hope he does plenty more lectures like this. He could make it basic and more so general knowledge and talk to children about this stuff and have them understand or he could talk to doctorates about the more intricate and in depth concepts. I’m rambling now but I just fully believe he could stand in front of anyone to give a lecture. Well done 10/10 will watch another
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I watched the whole video and felt like I was conned listening to the last 5 minutes.
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This is the first time I understood how we could possibly be living in a black hole. Simple, to the point, explanation. Bravo!
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Another home run by the RI! Thank you Dr. Beacham for a fascinating and powerful lecture.
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Wow, the concept that the universe is the interior of a black hole has just floored me.
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James Beachem you are the consumate Physicist, walks and talks the talk of Physics so coolly. I like it!
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18:51 this dude has been keeping an apple in his back pocket for nearly 19 minutes for thats lol
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I've done a fair amount of studying on black holes and astronomy/cosmology in general and I had 2 penny-drop moments during this lecture. Outstanding.
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What struck me is presenting the notion that the visible universe is just that, and there's stuff beyond that which we know must be there, and as it crosses over an event horizon and enters into our visible universe it expands our knowledge that much more and now becomes visible to us, but like a black hole we can never see beyond the event horizon. Just like being in a black hole. Absolutely mesmerizing. Bravo.
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Well....that took a turn there toward the end.
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What a fantastic lecture. Making science interesting and fun
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The prospect of each Black Hole containing it's own Universe is something I've believed since high school. The way I saw it, Time, Energy and Matter get pulled in- but Time, Energy and Matter don't just disappear; they have to go somewhere, so the existence of multiple universes (and of White Holes) has been something I have suspected for the better part of 17/18 years. I'm feeling a mixture of vindication, that my theory is shared by minds in the scientific community, and regret that I was never good enough with mathematics to actually JOIN that community and contribute from within.
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This is quite possibly the best explanation that I have ever come across. Kudos to you man!
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Thank you really for RI and thank you Dr.Beacham .. the lecture was awesome the ending was on another level
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I really enjoyed that. Fascinating stuff
