Time Travel

Move over Doctor Who. Could quantum physics help us make our very own Tardis? Prepare to expand your mind as stand-up comedian Ken Campbell introduces you to the notion of parallel universes. Then you’ll get to chat to a scientist who thinks time travel might be possible and decide for yourself. What would the consequences of time travel be?

Ever since H G Wells’s The Time Machine was published, travelling through time has been a core feature of science fiction – and now it seems to be a feature of modern physics.

Could we all go back to the future? Is science stranger than science fiction? Professor of physics Ronald Mallett will enlighten us on how and why time travel may indeed be possible. Discuss the stretchiness of time, what happens in time machines and paradoxes relating to time travel.

Wave goodbye to certainty. Multiple universes, entanglement and teleportation await you…

Event organised by:
The Science Museum

Speakers

Ken Campbell, stand-up comedian
Ronald Mallett, Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut, USA

Facilitator: Alison Begley, freelance science communicator