In Your Own Time

How do we construct, rationalise and experience time? How does theoretical physics change our perceptions of time? Investigate your own relationship with time and space in this evening of informal discussion.

After brief introductions by each of our speakers, join video artist Grace Weir, New Scientist cosmology consultant Marcus Chown and philosopher Michela Massimi as we take you on a journey through Grace’s current Science Museum exhibition, In my own time. Then explore your ideas further back at the Dana Centre bar.

Introductions to each piece by Grace are followed by responses from Marcus and Michela, before you have your say. These four thought-provoking films are an artist’s investigation and interpretation of black holes, notions of time and light, Einstein's theory of relativity, and questions in philosophy and theoretical physics regarding our shifting relationships with clock time.

Why can’t quantum theory hurt you? What happens to time in black holes? If time is multidimensional, what implications would this have for the way we live? Reflect on the nature of time and discuss the big questions it raises…

This event accompanies Grace Weir’s exhibition In my own time, as part of the Science Museum Arts Project.

Event organised by:
The Science Museum

Speakers

Marcus Chown, cosmology consultant
Michela Massimi, philosopher of physics, University College London
Grace Weir, video artist, In my own time exhibition

Facilitator: Bridget Ashley-Miller, co-curator